Found 20 meters of expired film!

cerber0s · Nov 17, 2020

It must be 12 years old at least but there's lot's of it. I can't even remember what speed it is but guessed 100. I rolled up a roll of 12 and brought out the old Nikkormat that hasn't been used since... Well, since the film was new probably. Just to try it out I used one of my guitars as a model. I'll develop it tonight and am curious to see what comes of it.

ic-racer · Nov 17, 2020

Nice Ibanez. Have not seen that headstock pattern since the 1970s. Never realized it until now, that vine pattern pre-dates the Jem by ten years.

cerber0s · Nov 17, 2020

ic-racer said:
Nice Ibanez. Have not seen that headstock pattern since the 1970s. Never realized it until now, that vine pattern pre-dates the Jem by ten years.

Thanks! Yeah it does, this one's from 1978. Plenty banged up but a great player.

The negatives are drying, they look really good, I'm surprised considering the age of the film.

MattKing · Nov 17, 2020

What does the edge printing say?

cerber0s · Nov 17, 2020

MattKing said:
What does the edge printing say?

I looked but didn't find one. It could be hidden in the blown out parts since I only rolled up around 12 frames.

cerber0s · Nov 17, 2020

Not too shabby for 12 year old film and a 50 year old camera. This is one of the pickup covers with the Flying Fingers emblem.

BradS · Nov 17, 2020

Looks like a pretty special guitar. Negatives look pretty good too. Thanks for sharing.

Peltigera · Nov 17, 2020

MattKing said:
What does the edge printing say?

Does bulk film have edge printing?

MattKing · Nov 17, 2020

Peltigera said:
Does bulk film have edge printing?

Normal Kodak still film certainly does - brand, type and frame numbers in a repeating cycle of 00 - 44.
Normal Kodak cine film does as well - no frame numbers though.
IIRC, Normal Ilford film does too.

cerber0s · Nov 17, 2020

This might be Fomapan. The place where I bought i only stock one bulk film now and that's Fomapan. But since it's been 12 years...

cerber0s · Nov 17, 2020

A few more. As far as composition goes they leave some to be desired but as a film test I'd say they are somewhat successful. At least you can make out the subject

CMoore · Nov 18, 2020

cerber0s said:
It must be 12 years old at least but there's lot's of it. I can't even remember what speed it is but guessed 100. I rolled up a roll of 12 and brought out the old Nikkormat that hasn't been used since... Well, since the film was new probably. Just to try it out I used one of my guitars as a model. I'll develop it tonight and am curious to see what comes of it.

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I do not know A Lot about guitars, but..........what model is that.?
Did not realize Ibanez made a 335-ish guitar.
Never seen a fret-board like that on an Ibanez either..... but maybe it is, or was common.?
VERY nice looking IMHO.
Is that a hard-tail......it sort of looks like it was set up for a Vibrato/Trem Bar at one time....maybe.?
NOT a guitar player.....sorry if i am way off the mark here.

zanxion72 · Nov 19, 2020

Can't tell much about the film. I love film so much that I can hardly say anything bad about it. I can tell much though about that lovely '78-'79 Ibanez of yours!

cerber0s · Nov 19, 2020

CMoore said:
I do not know A Lot about guitars, but..........what model is that.?
Did not realize Ibanez made a 335-ish guitar.
Never seen a fret-board like that on an Ibanez either..... but maybe it is, or was common.?
VERY nice looking IMHO.
Is that a hard-tail......it sort of looks like it was set up for a Vibrato/Trem Bar at one time....maybe.?
NOT a guitar player.....sorry if i am way off the mark here.

For someone who doesn't play guitar you speak the lingo pretty well This is a 1978 Ibanez CN (Concert series) 250. The concert series was a mid level guitar starting on model 100, 250 being at the top of that line. Then there was the top of the line Artist series with more bling and set necks.

The body shape is interesting, it's not really a 335 type guitar as the 335's are semi hollow with f-holes on the sides, it's also not like any other body that I know of from that time which means that Ibanez could very well have been first with this. It looks a lot like the PRS guitars but those didn't come about until 1984 or so.

The inlays are commonly referred to as Tree of Life, or innthis case half Tree of Life as there were models that had the inlays run the entire length of the fret board. They were not uncommon on older acoustic guitars but Ibanez first introduced them on the Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) signature guitar that pre-dates this by 2 years or so, they later became popular on the JEM series (Steve Vai) in the late 80's.

This one never had a tremolo system, it's mostly original except for the speed knobs and a switch that were beyond repair.

zanxion72 said:
Can't tell much about the film. I love film so much that I can hardly say anything bad about it. I can tell much though about that lovely '78-'79 Ibanez of yours!

Thanks, it is a very nice guitar

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