New Old Film Challenge #244: Successful Failures... Poll added

[ChrisR]

Post your photo that should have been a failure, for whatever reason, but that you've ended up really liking anyway. Should be room here for weak crowbars and split shoehorns, make use of them!

As usual the following rules apply:

- Must be taken by you
- Must be on film
- Must have been taken, developed and scanned prior to the start date of this challenge.
- Discussion in the discussion thread (link below) rather than this Entries thread, please.

Please include details of the camera, lens, film etc and anything else of relevance if you can possibly remember that far back.

One Entry per person only.

Entries close at 23:59 on Wednesday 18th September 2024, to be followed soon after by the poll which will run for 3 days.

Please keep all discussion and comments in the "new old film discussion thread" https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/t...discussion-thread.698995/page-21#post-9521968

 

[FishyFish]

Holga 120N
Kodak Tri-X (expired)

This is what happens when you don't RTFM and accidentally use the 6x4.5 frame counter window instead of the 6x6 window. I realised something was amiss when the counter reached 13...


FILM - Holga (mis)adventures #3 by fishyfish_arcade, on Flickr

 

[ChrisR]

Sluice and, er, water wheel in Coppermine Valley, Coniston.



This is one of the last (barely) usable frames from the roll of FP4+ in my Pentax MX, taken an hour or so before I slipped some way up the fell, banging the MX on a rock, causing the back to fly open (wouldn't close, either). Rewound into the cassette that evening, eventually devved (in HC-110 dilution B) after initially thinking there'd be absolutely nothing useful there. In fact the first 10 frames or so were usable with a bit of cropping, and the last third could have been used if I'd thought to re-load the film into another camera and advance the film! I quite like this frame, seems like a PowerFrom Above is pointing down, saying "This thistle is your leader now!".

 

[excalibur2]

When you are about 13 years old you forget the camera sees different to your eye:-

 

[ChrisR]

This challenge now closed, a poll will be added... soonish!

 

[ChrisR]

Poll added.

 

[ChrisR]

So Brian @excalibur2 and I tied! Since I did this challenge, one of the least successful in terms of entrants, are you willing to give #245 a go Brian?

 

[excalibur2]

So Brian @excalibur2 and I tied! Since I did this challenge, one of the least successful in terms of entrants, are you willing to give #245 a go Brian?

OK Chris if I can remember how to do it