Found films

Post by **Winston** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:03 am

When you purchase a movie camera off eBay or a garage sale, ever found one of them loaded with film?

So far I have two. Just now I got a Canon 318M with a roll of Ektachrome 160G in the chamber. About 10 feet left to fully exposed. A year ago, I purchased a Canon 514XL-S and found a sound K-40 fully exposed in the chamber.

Should I risk processing these? I know it's not cheap nowadays...but I'm reallllly curious what was shot on them.

Post by **super8man** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 6:16 am

With films like the K40, give a new-to-you processing method a try...like, if you have yet to brave WalMart, use the k40 you found and give it a go.

Better than using your own films!

Post by **reflex** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:46 am

super8man wrote:With films like the K40, give a new-to-you processing method a try... Better than using your own films!

Brilliant. I recently heard that Shopper's Drug Mart in Canada will forward S8 films to Dwayne's for processing. I've been wondering what to do with the half-exposed film in one of my cams. Now I know.

Sure hope it doesn't contain something illegal...

James

Post by **Angus** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 4:00 pm

Well here in the UK (and most of the world outside the USA) K40 comes process paid so whenever I find a super 8 or reg 8 camera with exposed K40 in it (or K25) I always send it to Swizerland for free procecssing.

I've found nothing very interesting on them, the best was some 70's reg 8 film which yielded perfect images of somebody's kids riding toy trucks in a garden.

Sometimes I will take a part exposed film and finish it in the camera I've just bought to check that it is functioning.

Post by **ccortez** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 7:10 pm

I found a cart of K40 in a camera in a junk shop and talked the owner into letting me have the cart for free so i could practice loading my spiral reel.

Post by **FILM-THURSO** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:30 pm

I spotted a roll of standard 8 in an old camera in a charity shop. It took me a little time to get them to understand that buying ONLY the film for the 5GBP price on the whole item and leaving them with the camera, they would make twice as much. The film still isn't processed but I'll send it away sometime.