All this "talk" makes me want to expose some B&W film, leave it in the pinhole camera and store it away in my crawling space, which happens to be dark, dry and cool. I'd also add some information about the pinhole "technology". Hopefully some descendant of mine would find the film after I am gone, process it and get a nice surprise!!
I don't know if people did store the camera/film on purpose, but I don't see anything wrong in doing it purposely, it'll be like a time capsule.......I think I will do it!
Guillermo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Vande Bunt" <Mike.VandeBunt@mixcom.com>
To: <pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Storage of unprocessed photo paper negatives
> Several months ago there was an article in (iirc) Popular Photography
> about someone who found his Grandmother's camera in a trunk in the
> attic with film still in it. Not expecting much, he had the film developed.
> Evidently, she was very frugal with her use of film -- the photos turned
> out to have been taken starting in 1919 and ending in 1933. All the
> shots came out, despite the fact that the camera had been packed
> away with a bunch of old clothes for over 60 years!
Received on Thu Aug 2 20:24:12 2001
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