Blazon

The back of my old 1976 Dodge motorhome.

 

My girlfriend found an old Instamatic camera for my collection and got it because it had a roll of film in it. It had been loaded and wound to the first frame, but since it sat in the camera for around 40 years, the first frame and a half had possibly (probably) been exposed many times. I shot the roll and developed it today to see if I any pictures on the roll turned out. They were quite faded and suffered heavy color shift, but I got useable images! The roll was in a Kodak Instamatic 154 when she bought it, but I transferred it to a Kodak Instamatic 104, and then finished it up in a Kodak Instamatic X-15, both cameras that I’ve had for awhile and been wanting to shoot with.

 

Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 4 (Camerosity code YTSA – 09/72)

Lens: Plastic 43mm Meniscus

Film: Kodak Kodacolor II (long expired)

Shutter Speed: 1/90

Aperture: F/11

Date: October 23rd, 2019, 2.45 p.m.

Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A.

 

Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41

Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees

Developer: 3 ½ minutes at 102 degrees

Water rinse: 2 minutes (to keep chemicals clean)

Blix: 6 ½ minutes at 102 degrees

Water rinse: 2 minutes at approx. 100 degrees

Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature

Water rinse: 2 minutes

Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute

 

Kodak X-15-4 Kodacolor II 09ff

Done