I want to digitize my negatives

[AArdvark]

[AArdvark]

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

It's our moon.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

My dad had a Motorola 3xi camera that took film. Ebay indicates it's not worth much but with my recent adventures in old computers I know that it may have more value to others.

Are there spots that still develop film? There is a roll in it. Does anyone want this thing?

[Casual Observer]

Think CVS does but I also read that undeveloped film may not have held up.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Think CVS does but I also read that undeveloped film may not have held up.

Thank you! Great point about the film. We would end up wondering why my father took pictures in the 90s of featureless amorphous blobs.

[Tdarcos]

Think CVS does but I also read that undeveloped film may not have held up.

Thank you! Great point about the film. We would end up wondering why my father took pictures in the 90s of featureless amorphous blobs.

More likely you would wonder why he took all blank or all black pictures. The film itself is made of non-biogradable polymers, so if left in sunlight it will take hundreds of years to degrade (decompose). It's the emulsion, the light-sensitive chemicals, that produce the image. Those are volatile chemicals that will evaporate after a few years. That's why film packs have a 'develop before' date printed on the box and probably on the label on the plastic shell.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Setting aside the fact that I worked one summer surrounded by nothing but emulsion for Kodak, the fact that my phrasing was something you still felt the autistic need to incorrect me about is... well, expected.

[Casual Observer]

Setting aside the fact that I worked one summer surrounded by nothing but emulsion for Kodak, the fact that my phrasing was something you still felt the autistic need to incorrect me about is... well, expected.

you worked making film for Kodak? Tell us more.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

It was just a summer job, my dad worked there so I could get a job collecting barrels of it. In darkness!!!!

Darkness!

[Tdarcos]

It was just a summer job, my dad worked there so I could get a job collecting barrels of it. In darkness!!!!

Darkness!

Photography supplies are very light sensitive. So much so, that Kodak was getting complaints about contaminated photo paper having white spots. They checked the dates and someone figured out what had happened. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the Defense Department did A-bomb tests aboveground at Alamagordo, New Mexico. Prevailing winds would carry the fallout as far northeast as Rochester, New York, and the residual radiation was strong enough to contaminate photo paper. This needed to stop, it made customers unhappy. When they informed the government, someone realized the patterns of those white spot images would be very interesting for other countries to allow them to discover what the blast size was. So, executive management at Kodak was 'read into' the secret testing plans, and from then on was told in advance of the date of each test, and when the fallout would reach them so that they would know not to manufacture photo paper on that day.

[Casual Observer]

It was just a summer job, my dad worked there so I could get a job collecting barrels of it. In darkness!!!!

Darkness!

Photography supplies are very light sensitive. So much so, that Kodak was getting complaints about contaminated photo paper having white spots. They checked the dates and someone figured out what had happened. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the Defense Department did A-bomb tests aboveground at Alamagordo, New Mexico. Prevailing winds would carry the fallout as far northeast as Rochester, New York, and the residual radiation was strong enough to contaminate photo paper. This needed to stop, it made customers unhappy. When they informed the government, someone realized the patterns of those white spot images would be very interesting for other countries to allow them to discover what the blast size was. So, executive management at Kodak was 'read into' the secret testing plans, and from then on was told in advance of the date of each test, and when the fallout would reach them so that they would know not to manufacture photo paper on that day.

Wow, very informative. I never would have looked that up and you brought it to us.

[AArdvark]

Moon with telescope adapter and no drinks

[AArdvark]

With 3X barlow lens, zoomin in on those secret alien bases

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

These are good negatives! Is this a new picture or the negatives in question?

[AArdvark]

New photos using my dslr. All the negative transfers are finished so I'm using this thread to post pix now. At least artsy-fartsy pix.