Danielle in the park, from the old Kodak Six-20
Having patched up the old Kodak’s bellows with gaffer tape, I finally got a roll of film back that wasn’t horrifically marred by light leakage. They went ahead and developed the film and made singles for me, but didn’t do the scans I’d requested from the lab, because the images weren’t exactly top notch, owing to my lack of a light meter at the time.
One of the salvaged photographs: the doors on our backyard shed
I got the last roll of film back that I shot with my old Kodak foldout, and unfortunately it appears that my bellows weren’t nearly as mended as I thought they were. Out of the 8 frame roll, I got one shot that was relatively decent, and another that was, shall we say…barely recoverable.
So I got my first roll of film back from my old Kodak Six-20 camera, and all the negatives are completely and utterly washed out. I first suspected that my…less than careful…respooling of the first roll may have been to blame, but then a flashlight and a dark room revealed the true culprit: leaky bellows. I went ahead and stuck an SB-25 in the back of it and made the shot you see below, to illustrate the problem. All those little pinpricks of light you see at the top of the bellows, those are holes where light can get out and, of course, in, ruining my film. (more…)