Development | 5 October 2008

I had some old rolls of film developed — one from a plastic 35mm pinhole camera, another from a medium-format plastic-lens box camera, and the last that came already exposed in a toy twin lens reflex camera I bought a year ago. When I took the film to the camera store for development, the guy recognized me and joked, “Oh, we don’t do that anymore,” and for a second I believed him and had a sudden vision of being forced to develop negatives myself in the bathroom.

Last night I sat at the laptop in the TV room scanning the negatives from the pinhole camera, with the long-unheard but familiar whirring and squealing sounds of the scanner. Above are selections. Their subject matter consists mostly of objects around the house, as a means of testing the camera after making some adjustments to it, which I wasn’t hopeful would improve the images. Some of them I think turned out quite well (see above), and others for the life of me I can’t even figure out what’s in them. I am out of medium-format negative holders, which means that I will chop up and scan those negatives later. I’m not sure yet whether this will send me on another photographic bout or not.

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