So a bunch of us nut-burgers on Buzznet decided to do a Christmas in May exchange, mainly because we were bored. I was assigned to get something for my friend Boz, who is an internet celebrity in his own right. Boz's mother passed away last summer, and he had recently mentioned that she had used a Kodak box camera to take many of their family photos, so as part of his gift I threw in a Brownie box camera and an old Kodak instamatic.
He loved them! (yay!) And the best part is that both cameras have old film in them. This happens a lot - I am constantly getting cameras in that have rolls of partially exposed film still in them. I like to think that it's like dinosaur archaeology - a person was shooting a roll of film and then was suddenly caught in an ice age(!!!), when it's actually more likely that somebody shot some film and then forgot to get it developed, and then just never used that camera again.
Well, nevermind where it came from, it's still cool! There are quite a few people who develop film they've found in old cameras and post the images to the interwebs. There are even several Flickr groups dedicated to old exposed film.
Here are two interesting sites of people who develop old film and are passionate about older cameras:
http://www.merrillphoto.com/JunkStoreCameras.htm
http://www.westfordcomp.com/holga/index.html
So watcha waiting for? Find yourself an old camera with film in it at The Collector Detector now!
