Kodak Disc - have expired film lying around- cameras are cheap- should I bother?

GarageBoy · Mar 18, 2015

I have some disc film from 1988- about 45 shots worth- cameras are a few dollars on ebay- unrefrigerated film- should I even bother wasting the money?

AgX · Mar 18, 2015

There are cameras with built-in batteries and those that take replacable AA cells.

trythis · Mar 18, 2015

What will you do with the negatives? Print from lab? I can't imagine using an enlaeger. Scanning a radically symmetric cluster is nightmare. I tried so I could find out what was on some 1980s negatives. Sell on eBay and use the money for something useful.

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bsdunek · Mar 18, 2015

If it's color/C41, Dewayne's will process it. http://www.dwaynesphoto.com/newsite2006/disc-126-film.html I'd try a couple just for the fun of it.

RPC · Mar 19, 2015

In addition to the poor quality from the long expired film, you will have the overly grainy images from the tiny negatives of disc cameras. I owned one and can't figure out how Kodak even considered such a format.

GarageBoy · Mar 19, 2015

Ebayed a camera for 99 cents- $6 shipped
$9 for the lowest fi photography possible - i've done dumber

trythis · Mar 19, 2015

Gotta pay for processing and prints too. I suppose if you develop C41 at home its cheap enough but dropping a hammer on your foot is free and probably more pleasant than using a disc camera.

GarageBoy · Mar 20, 2015

Yeah, it's $9 to process and print at Dwaynes - I was always a glutton for punishment
This might be the most hipster thing I'll do - not only am i shooting film, I'm shooting crap expired film, in a crap format, which was crap new, in a 25 year old camera of questionable quality

trythis · Mar 20, 2015

Haha!
Yeah, $9 is ok... I look forward to seeing the results. I've spent $15 to find out how terrible a roll of old slide film was so yeah I get it.

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MattKing · Mar 20, 2015

While disc cameras were current, I saw a high quality, approximately 4'x 6' poster printed from a disc negative where the colours and detail were excellent, and the grain was quite pleasing.

It was printed by Kodak in Rochester, as part of a retirement party celebrating a Kodak retiree who was required to retire at age 65, just a few months short of his 50 year anniversary with Kodak Canada.

Undoubtedly, the poster required high end printing techniques, but it still came from a disc negative.

And much of the improvements we enjoy in current films resulted from the research and development behind disc film (and the Vision series of motion picture film).

RattyMouse · Mar 21, 2015

RPC said:
In addition to the poor quality from the long expired film, you will have the overly grainy images from the tiny negatives of disc cameras. I owned one and can't figure out how Kodak even considered such a format.

The disc camera might just have been the beginning of the end for Kodak. It was an appalling film format.

MartinP · Mar 21, 2015

The aim of the disc camera, as a replacement for the drop-in 126 and 110 cartridges, was to require the processors to purchase huge quantities of new machinery and gear from Kodak, in order to print the negs, and to pay assorted licensing costs. Not a great profit strategy really. APS came later and seemed sort-of in the same direction.

Of course, I am probably wrong and the reason for the disc-film introduction was to reduce the number of baby-seals clubbed to death during production of 110 and 126 cartridges . . . or something like that.

cl3mens · Mar 21, 2015

Like when they claimed their 620 spools were necessary to build smaller cameras than 120 would permit...

nworth · Mar 23, 2015

For fun, maybe. But these cameras took terrible pictures (17 mm is just not very big), and the unrefrigerated film will probably show its age.

ambaker · Mar 23, 2015

Get the camera, and give it a go... Half the fun in life is when you don't know exactly what is going to happen.

GarageBoy · Mar 25, 2015

Well - camera arrived today- dead...
I'll see if I can spend another $5 or less on one that works

1920 · Mar 25, 2015

punishment

I'm loving the masochism here, I totally get it. :munch:

I'll keep my eyes out when I hit the yard sales this weekend

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