bookmark_borderSalvaging old film photos
Back in 2010, I stumbled upon some 110 film for sale inside a Mesquite Walgreens while visiting my parents. I was surprised to see it there and even more surprised to see that it was unexpired. I hadn't seen the format anywhere in years, and hadn't shot a cartridge of it since 1995. I ended up buying several boxes of the stuff and actually shooting four cartridges of it not long afterward at the Mochalux open mic, Curtain Club, and just around my apartment. It then sat dormant on a shelf for thirteen years before I finally got around to getting it developed. I hadn't planned on this - on more than one occasion over the past several years I had looked online for a lab that could still develop and possibly print the film, but I just never viewed it as a priority. I never bothered to freeze the film cartridges, so when I finally took some of them to Garland Camera to be processed and scanned, I wasn't expecting pristine color fidelity or high quality results. And by then, save for some of the shots from Mochalux, I had long since forgotten what had been recorded.
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