No, it should have been 24 shots on Kodak Gold 200.
In my last #FullRollFriday post I mentioned that I went through a phase of acquiring various cameras to try. I wanted to share one of the more interesting rolls of film with you.
Almost all my cameras were either free (from friends and relatives) or cheap. They were cheap because I tended to buy “untested” cameras. My Canon EOS 600 was £12, the Box camera was £5, the Chinon CX was about £10, and so on… I was drawn to the Exa 1C because it was a 35mm camera with a waist level viewfinder and I LOVE a waist level viewfinder!
Testing out the film advance and shutter it all sounded fine so I loaded a roll of film. It was 2016 and my husband and I were going to Perugia, Italy for a short holiday and I brought the Exa IC along for the ride. I was not expecting the results that I got.
Clearly the film advance does not work correctly and the images ended up over lapping. Bizarrely though this happened in 3s, I don’t really understand how that works but I’ve included a picture of the negatives so you can see. I’m also not sure why it only let me get to shot 8 on this roll before telling me the roll was finished (even if it did think I had taken 12 shots).
When I finally master digitising my own colour negatives I’d like to rescan these in their little threesomes as I think they will be quite interesting to view. For the time being though I just have the scans provided by the lab and those are shared below.
What do you think? Would you be interested in seeing them in their psuedo-triptychs?
I really enjoy going through full rolls and sharing them, I hope you enjoy this too! You can follow along with my learning log here or follow me on instagram.
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Art Tafil on 9 frames / Or should it be 12? – #FullRollFriday – By Holly Gilman
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Louis Sousa on 9 frames / Or should it be 12? – #FullRollFriday – By Holly Gilman
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BG on 9 frames / Or should it be 12? – #FullRollFriday – By Holly Gilman
Comment posted: 11/09/2020
I've always liked the waistfinders. I look over every Exacta I come across for this very reason, but I haven't found one that's in working condition AND affordable. The DIY Lomography Konstruktor is a funky little 35mm camera with a waistfinder, but it's quite a few steps below an Exacta.
That film advance quirk is certainly a double-edged sword: these images, especially as triptyches, are really great, but it would be nice to have the control of a working film advance.
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Michael J on 9 frames / Or should it be 12? – #FullRollFriday – By Holly Gilman
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Castelli Daniel on 9 frames / Or should it be 12? – #FullRollFriday – By Holly Gilman
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George Appletree Photography on 9 frames / Or should it be 12? – #FullRollFriday – By Holly Gilman
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David Hume on 9 frames / Or should it be 12? – #FullRollFriday – By Holly Gilman
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Tobias on 9 frames / Or should it be 12? – #FullRollFriday – By Holly Gilman
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I've shot a lot of vintage cameras over the years. The only cameras I've really had trouble with were a Canon EOS 650. The shutter jams on it at higher shutter speeds, and a Pentax ME Super that arrived from eBay with a shutter mechanism. In the case of the latter, the camera was supposedly testest so I got my money back.
I shot for years with a 1940s Argus C3 and I briefly used an early FED 2 rangefinder before I sent it to my buddy for his birthday. We met in a film photography class.
I'm curious about what film you were shooting. It looks like either Gold 200 or ColorPlus 200. I am a big fan of Gold 200. It was actually the third film stock I wrote a review of. Still one of my favorite color negative films.
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Huss on 9 frames / Or should it be 12? – #FullRollFriday – By Holly Gilman
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You'll have plenty of cameras that take normal 35mm film images..
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Tejim on 9 frames / Or should it be 12? – #FullRollFriday – By Holly Gilman
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Sacha Cloutier on 9 frames / Or should it be 12? – #FullRollFriday – By Holly Gilman
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Jens on 9 frames / Or should it be 12? – #FullRollFriday – By Holly Gilman
Comment posted: 09/07/2022
Great Exa !!
The Pentacon 29mm is a famous and fantastic lens, use it on Praktica MTL and PLC cameras and on Contax RTS.