Monday, November 21, 2011

Dissappointment on the Brownie Front

After taking all eight exposures, I embarked on the little task of retrieving the film from the camera and getting it onto the spool, in the dark bag - a challenge on its own.   After much flustering I managed it and developed it according to guide lines I found online.  To my utmost dissappointment, the film came back blank. 


I'm not sure if you can see, but the strange little track mark on the left hand side was probably me, trying to put it on the reel - as there was no feeder whole (like on the side of 35mm film) - its hard to get onto the reel. 

I'm not sure what has gone wrong. 
  1. The film definitely loaded.
  2. The film wound on (you put it on a spool on one side and take it off the other).
  3. I checked the shutter and it appears to be working.
  4. Problems with the developing?
Any thoughts? 

2 comments:

  1. It looks like whole reel of film has been exposed onto the light.

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  2. Its does look like that - but not sure how that could have happened - though having said that its a different type of film to 35mm (obviously) but meaning that loading, unloading, etc is slightly different and I was learning on the fly - so there's always room for error.

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