unterwegs in Sachen Film >>> <<< on the road making films!
I must say I’m in love with these glass negatives … and the wacky emulsion. This is a photo I took from my neighbour’s balcony … in the foreground this wishiwashy stuff is moving grass … the exposure time was 10 seconds (a bit too long, the negative has turned out very dense and dark …)
… with a very expired Ilford glass plate inside!
This one! I like it! A portrait of a friend.
But I still don’t know why it is so … weird, so rough … is the emulsion simply dead and decayed after 60 years?
One of my old film friends inherited a heap of old film and photography material from his deceased professor. Cameras, photo paper, a mountain of film cans full of 16 and 35 mm film of all kinds …
I took some weird photo paper boxes, among them old glass plates from ILFORD! Glass plates with a film emulsion on them, meant for special photo cameras which I don’t own, but who cares, I got an old Brownie which is more or less just a box with a lens … And hooray, the glass plate fits in!
And another hooray: I got an image!
Can you see it?
A window in the upper left corner! And a lantern in the bottom right.
