Don’t become a paperweight

When we moved to New Zealand, there were several boxes containing ephemera, bits and pieces we didn’t want to bin, but couldn’t really categorise.

I decided to dig out my old Nikon F100 and try my hand at some black & white analogue film photography. The camera was in one of the boxes that we hadn’t tackled or even opened in just over 4 years.

I found my F100, very dusty and the grips had become very sticky as the rubber had effectively started to de-vulcanize. How I brought that camera back to life will be the subject of another post.

In the same box I found our old Canon Ixus camera and it had a part exposed roll of film still inside. Curiosity got the better of me, but first I had to buy a new battery to get the film back into the cartridge, then set about finding a lab that can process it. We have no idea what’s on it.

I have found a lab that can process it, and the black and white 35mm film that I’m currently shooting in the F100. A quick search of the web and we found out that you can no longer buy APS film. So, what was a state-of-the-art camera and held the hopes of extending the life of film photography has effectively become a paperweight. The body is aluminium and very well made. We hope the images on the roll of film will be a time capsule of the time around the turn of century and have some great images of the kids………. watch this space for when the scanned images come back from the lab.