Out & About In Brighton

Sunday 13th Feb, Canon Sureshot Supreme, Kodak 400

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Picked this up this evening...

Minolta X-700 with a 35-70mm f3.5-4.5 zoom.
Sun 2x teleconverter
Vivitar 20mm f3.8
And a 36exp roll of film about 5 years old (estimated by the guy that gave it all to me)

10p fillum

Result!
Picked this up from my local lunchtime charity shop today for 10p.
C41 process before 03/2005.
The same shop that I told the manageress that if she had any old films she should put them on sale and not throw them out if they were out of date like she told me she'd been doing...

On A Cresta Run

So I went out to take some photos with the Cresta II at lunchtime today but had a problem with the shutter sticking, I ended up buying the Brownie Cresta 3 from the same shop as before. I nearly bought it originally but changed my mind at the last moment.

Anyway I decided to remove the partially exposed film from the Cresta II and load it into the Cresta 3, luckily the worlds smallest toilet at work is pretty dark with the light off so it was pressganged into doubling as a makeshift darkroom.

One small slip meant I relised that I had loaded the film onto the internals of the 3 and then put that into the body of the II (the one with the sticky shutter, doh!).

Now in the 3 and ready to go (hopefully not completely ruined anyway)

It's Frothy Man...

...Oh hang on no it's another charity shop snapper purchase.
Not to be confused with a Vauxhall Cresta, the Cresta Run or the 70's soft drink...

...it's a Kodak Brownie Cresta II of 1956 - 1959 vintage.
Cost me £1.50, needed a quick clean up, got a film on order from 7Dayshop who seem very reasonable for films (I'll let you know how their service pans out) as it's a medium format camera and takes 120 film.