Showing posts with label verichrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label verichrome. Show all posts

Monday, October 14, 2024

Expired in 1938

I have a small archive of old Kodak Verichrome roll film I acquired some years ago. The rolls are all exposed and stored in original boxes:

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

118 Kodak Verichrome roll from 1940s


I received these rolls from a antique dealer in Fayetteville, North Carolina with 2 other rolls and spools of different vintage.The roll in the center never been exposed; the yellow color film (right) was empty. So what's left is this big bad spool of 118 Kodak Verichrome.118 format roll film was introduced by Kodak in 1900 and discontinued in 1961 but it was not in wide use after early 40s because the cameras made for this film format were out of production by 1930s.
I did my usual tests and developed the roll; a face appeared from the wet darkness:

Thursday, April 14, 2011

柯達 Verichrome在一個盒子裡與到期日期1943年12月

120 Kodak Verichrome film dated Dec 1943, China. 柯達 Verichrome在一個盒子裡與到期日期1943年12月. Street Photography of Miami, San Francisco and Key West by Emir Shabashvili, see http://street-foto.com, http://miamistreetphoto.com, http://miamistreetphotography.com or http://miamistreetphotographer.com
Yes that's right -- just what's the subject says -- 120 Kodak Verichrome in a box with the expiration date of December 1943. I received it from a seller in a village in Northern Illinois and were hoping for the images from... a village in Northern Illinois (or Chicago, if the stars are gracious), but something completely different came out of my darkroom's wet darkness: