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Nice result! I've done half a dozen of these, mostly from thrift-shop cameras. In several cases, the recognizable images were down at the end near the spool. I believe that those are better protected from the elements and so survive longer. I doubt that you lost any images because you did something wrong. From the clothing I'd guess early-to-mid 1950s (?) You've done a great job of resurrection.
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About five years ago I was working with a sheet of film I found in an old Soviet Fotokor camera. I got this image, with apparent moisture damage and possibly a lightstrike from a dark slide being pulled back. I played with scanning in color mode (as I recall--dimly) and crushing the warm tones, skewing the scan toward the blue end of the spectrum. That seemed to bring up some details in the subject's face and in the background. I stand developed in Rodinal simply because I had no idea what the film was. Today, I'd use HC-110.
Found in a Fotokor 3 by terry, on Flickr
Found in a Fotokor 8 by terry, on Flickr
Edit:
About five years ago I was working with a sheet of film I found in an old Soviet Fotokor camera. I got this image, with apparent moisture damage and possibly a lightstrike from a dark slide being pulled back. I played with scanning in color mode (as I recall--dimly) and crushing the warm tones, skewing the scan toward the blue end of the spectrum. That seemed to bring up some details in the subject's face and in the background. I stand developed in Rodinal simply because I had no idea what the film was. Today, I'd use HC-110.


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