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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!!!
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!
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
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!!!
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!
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