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G'day all. Thought I'd introduce myself.

My name is Troy and I'm an amateur film photographer from Australia and I specialize in shooting and home developing ultra vintage expired film stocks and have shot many rolls dating from the 1930s to the 1980s, it's a lot of fun capturing today's world on vintage film!!!:D . My collection of vintage films I've shot can be seen on my Flickr page https://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N08/sets .

Surprisingly I've only started getting into film photography late last year but didn't take me long to pick up the skills in shooting and home developing films and learning about Caffenol C I can easily develop all my B&W films on the cheap so that fired my interest in shooting and developing film. I actually started with Super 8 movie film and progressed to still film photography and quickly found my niche in shooting vintage medium format roll films ever since I bought a couple of early 50s Kodak 120 films from an antique store, and the rest is history! I've since been buying many vintage films off Ebay and been shooting them around Sydney and Wollongong regions and most of the time I get great results. The oldest films I've shot to date is are 3 AGFA Isochrom 116 films that expired in February 1932 and on one roll I have captured the Sydney Harbour Bridge as it is the same age as the film https://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N08/14177606753/ .

I have in more recent times stepped things up a notch by shooting vintage colour films and have had mixed success cross processing them in my Tetenal C-41 colour developer kit at cold temperatures. I have shot several colour films from the 1940s to the 1970s and the best results I've gotten was with a Kodak Ektachrome 120 Type F colour film that expired in November 1958 https://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N08/sets/72157644477261449/ the colours in that film came out fantastic for the film's age!:D Also had semi-success with my oldest colour film Kodak Kodacolor 120 that expired in May 1945 https://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N08/sets/72157644891640934/ which some shots there is distinct colours!:D

I also have shot and home developed many vintage Super 8 and Double 8 films from the 60s to the 80s over the past several months and have featured them on my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/troysvisualarts , just look up 8mm, Super 8 in the search bar and the films will show up. The local news even did a report on my hobby too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8kf5ZX7ATo as I've captured some iconic local events on Super 8 and Double 8 like the demolition of the local copper smelter stack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MqB5cHVZ8E and Australia Day 2014 fest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHMiffpFHOc .

Anyways that's pretty much me in a nutshell on film photography, I totally get a buzz out of making ancient films work and giving today's digital world that ultra retro distant past look.

Cheers
Troy
 

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Welcome! From your thread title I thought at first that you were vintage...:wink:

Fun hobby -- questions on developing old film always crop up here. Your expertise will be of value!
 

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Welcome! From your thread title I thought at first that you were vintage...:wink:

Fun hobby -- questions on developing old film always crop up here. Your expertise will be of value!

I thought he was expired--and not recently. :tongue:


Welcome to APUG--I agree your expertise will be helpful having on the forum.
 

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Very neat! So I have to ask, did you use vintage cameras in all cases? I didn't see any notes about camera, lens etc.
 

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Welcome to APUG. Both my film and myself are past our expiration dates also!
 

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Troy, welcome to APUG and you will find many like minded people here who can offer expert advice on almost any vintage equipment and processing techniques. I enjoyed looking at your images and film (all unique).
 

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Welcome from 900-odd kilometers south! I get the feeling you are going to be kept rather busy here fielding questions about your film developing process. :smile:
 

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Welcome to APUG, Troy. I love the Flickr page on beer-developed 35mm! ...and here we were thinking coffee is where it's at!
 
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Thank you everyone for your warm welcomes and great comments on my vintage photography.

I will definitely share my own expertise on shooting and developing vintage film based off what I've learned but also I still have a lot to learn myself with this hobby so I will be asking loads of questions too. I admit I have to brush up on some of my shooting techniques particularly the parallax factor in taking shots as I often get it shockingly wrong and the subjects appear partially out of frame, but getting an old film to produce a good contrasty picture I have pretty well nailed it!:smile:

Very neat! So I have to ask, did you use vintage cameras in all cases? I didn't see any notes about camera, lens etc.
Answering your question, for my medium format photography I generally shoot my 120s and 620s in my 1930s/40s DEHEL 4.5cm X 6cm foldout camera https://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N08/11956020625/ and sometimes on my Kodak Brownie SIX-20 C 6cm X 9cm camera https://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N08/11956853806/ , for my 116 films I use my 1920s Kodak Hawkeye 2A Model B foldout camera https://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N08/11956440764/ which gives me nice large 6.5cm X 11cm exposures! I admit I have trouble making the time to enter the details of my shots as I am always busy with many other things on top of this hobby. When I do put down the details on my shots its usually in the album description as it saves me entering them on each photo.

Welcome to APUG, Troy. I love the Flickr page on beer-developed 35mm! ...and here we were thinking coffee is where it's at!
Thanks. I have since learned the beer doesn't really do anything to the film but the vitamin C and the soda is doing all the work, but for novelty purposes it is a cool way to develop film, and what could be more Aussie in film photography than developing film in a can of Victoria Bitter!:smile: I have also developed in V energy drink, cola, prune juice all with vitamin C and soda and got good results as well.
 

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Troy, superb shots. Welcome and have a nice stay.
 

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Hi Troy, from another Aussie - welcome to APUG. Looking forward to your words of wisdom; always wanted to shoot well expired film - your comments will be read with a ton of interest by all I'm sure!!
 

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