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Nice work! Where did you find the film?
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Thanks. I found the film--where else?--on Eb@y. Often people have high starting bids for film this old thinking, I guess, that it gains in value as it ages, but sometimes some cheap boxes slip through. I was able to get usable images from 120 roll film that expired in the 1960s a couple of years ago, and so I was curious to see what I'd get if I went even older. Now I know.
Jonathan
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"will be gladly replaced, if found to be defective in manufacture"...
so you had no risk
:-)
hendrik
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Beautiful image Jonathan..
Are these glass plates?
I have 5 boxes of different ancient glass plates in 18x24cm size...
Have been wondering whether totry it out or to donate them to a museum....
Time will tell
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hendrik faure
"will be gladly replaced, if found to be defective in manufacture"... so you had no risk.
None at all! ;)
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gandolfi
Are these glass plates?
The Gevaert Ultra Panchro is sheet film, but I also have two unopened boxes of very old glass plates. Unfortunately, I have no plate holders to load them in. Some people seem to think you should keep old film and/or plates in the original packaging as collector's items, but I love shooting very old emulsions. I have yet to find an unopened box of sheet film that is so old as to be unusable.
Jonathan
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Here are my first still lifes, not just of 2013, but ever. I generally fancy myself a landscape photographer, and I definitiely enjoyed shooting at 75 Fahrenheit, no wind, and quite a bit of control over the light and composition!
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There is something about the vintage fonts and design of the box that says "shoot me and prepare for greatness". And sure enough... it's giving you stunning results! Lucky, lucky you!
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hendrik faure
"will be gladly replaced, if found to be defective in manufacture"...
so you had no risk
:-)
hendrik
Although I have lived here in Williamstown for nine years, I had no idea that film was made here. I will try to get some information, but my suspicion is that the company existed on what is now a Superfund site on the edge of the Hoosic River.
Dave
PS I found that Gevaert film was manufactured here for short time during and shortly after the war. The factory was in a converted textile mill, which is now referred to as the Photech site, from the last owners, who fled and dumped the property on the town for unpaid taxes. The factory was demolished and the contamination far more extensive than foreseen, so it remains a ten acre brownfield owned by the town.
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Fascinating work Jonathan - you are indeed getting a look akin to an alt-process. The cool thing here is you are using your digital tools to make something all together new, and different - truly a merger of technologies if there ever was one, what with the negative likely unusable for silver prints.