I paid £1.50 for this Kodak 44a camera in a boot sale last week. I'd picked it up and examined it several weeks previously, and was tempted to buy it, as although I already have one of these, this one had a partly used film in it. I put it down again, but when it was still there later in the season, I decided to rescue it. It takes 12 square format photos on a roll of 127 film, the film in it was on exposure 5. I decided to finish it off and process it, though was not expecting to get anything out of it. I don't know how old the film was, I didn't even know until I removed it whether it was colour or black and white. It turned out to be a colour Agfa film, and I developed it in my Tetenal C41 kit, giving it longer than usual to try to compensate for its age. When I looked at the film it seemed completely blank, but I hung it up to dry anyway, as an old roll of film can come in useful at times. Once it was dry, I could see there were very faint traces of images on it, at least on the portion that I had shot, there was nothing on the first five frames, reflecting the fact that an old latent image is less stable than a recently exposed image.
After scanning and doing some fairly radical adjustments in photoshop, I was able to squeeze some images out of a couple of the shots that I took.
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