Showing posts with label holiday snaps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday snaps. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 July 2014

Kodak Brownie 'Cresta' update

I just got back the processed film negatives from the 1955 Kodak Brownie 'Cresta' camera that I picked up recently for a couple of quid.
Film from cameras of this age, do not usually come out too well, and when the labs rang me after processing, I initially thought it would be to say 'sorry, but there's nothing on it' as is so often the case. Surprisingly, on this occasion they called to say 'Hey, it looks like you've got some pretty reasonable negs here!' and they were right. On first inspection, they would appear to be fairly consistent with the age of the camera itself, probably taken in the late 50's, maybe someone who knows cars (looks like a rather lovely late 50's Citroen DS to me) and ladies fashions better than me can help out? Family snapshots taken on a European (Mediterranean) holiday I'd say, anyone like to hazard a guess where?











Thursday, 8 November 2012

Plastic Fantastic! (ME-101)

I can tell you next to nothing about this next little camera. I've been carrying it around in the glove compartment of my car for so long I can't even remember where it came from. It's only giveaway is the number ME-101 on the front fascia. It's a very cheaply made, totally plastic camera, plastic lens and everything. I would've overlooked it, but for the fact that I was intrigued to see what results would come from this piece of plastic trash.

I took it on our family holiday to Devon last summer and here's the results. It does have a pleasantly soft look with some heavy masking to one corner in particular, a streak of brightness down the centre and with some (to be expected) light leaks. I've upped the contrast and saturation a tad but not much else.

After the holiday I forgot to remove the film and develop it till just last week, at which point the lens fell off! I did say it was very cheaply made!