For the @hiddenbradford #bradfordphotoady challenge (read my first post on it here – marfell.me.uk/wordpress/?p=266) I have submitted a photo of one of the last film canisters I used before going digital in about 2001 with and Olympus C200Z.
The canister is a Kodak Gold Ultra ISO 400 35mm 36 exposure colour print film. The neagatives are from a ISO 100 print film a few years earlier.
Earlier in the day I had thoughts about photographing an oil film on water but did not have any time to experiment. Before I set off to work I tried some WD40 on a puddle – it just made a lot of speckles. I also tried a drop of bike chain oil in the same puddle – that just stayed as a little green droplet. I probably needed something like petrol but I was not going to syphon any out of Kathie’s car.
I managed to get a quick lunch-time walk (at about 15:10) along the river and canal where I looked for oil films around the few barges that were moored. Even if any of them were leaking anything it wouldn’t have shown because the wind and rain was roughing up the surface too much. And I wasn’t that keen on getting wet and cold in the process.
I did think I had an even older (a lot older) 120 roll film in one of the drawers but I couldn’t find it. That would have been a little more interesting for those whose music has always come on small silvery disks or off the internet.
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