General Photography | Lost Films Part One

A short while ago I decided to catalogue all my cameras so that I could keep track should I ever decide to lift my ‘no lending’ rule. In doing this, not only was I surprised by the amount of film cameras that I had somehow acquired over the years I was also surprised to find how many had half used films in them.

Half used films would usually happen from when I would take the camera out for a specific event and then completely forget to take an adequate amount of photographs.

I found around 25 films in total and I thought that I could make it a regular feature. I find waiting for the photographs to come out one of the interesting aspects of film photography. So when it comes to handing in a film without even knowing whether anything has come out at all I find getting the result quite exciting. When it comes to actually getting these films processed I generally opt to get the film developed without getting any prints made. This is mainly because I haven’t a clue how many (if any) photographs are actually on the roll of film and if I were to pay to get prints as well, it would prove to be quite expensive in the end. This is especially true if the films only yield one or two shots.

For our first instalment I’m going to use what must be the most recent of films. This film was first started in Meopham a few weeks ago on some Kodak Everyday ISO 200 35mm film (I seem to have a surplus of ISO 200 film at the moment). The photographs aren’t all from the same day, this is mainly due to what I said earlier, I take along a thirty-six exposure film and manage to take only ten shots. This leads to a variety of photographs when it finally gets processed. The photographs were taken on a Belomo Villia; a simple 35mm point and shoot camera. I received this camera as a gift some time ago and I’ve not used it as much as I should have.

I have just noticed whilst scanning the film, that the name of the film changes halfway through. It goes from Kodak Everyday ISO 200 to Jessops Diamond film.

So hopefully this can be the start of a new series of blog post showing photos from moments past and forgotten. It should provide a wealth of material as I have quite a few rolls still to get processed.