OT because I just realized this film didn't come from one of my Pentax cameras.
I go along from time to time scanning my old film trying to integrate the images
with my "back catalog". It's part of my ongoing effort to organize & DE-clutter.
I found a roll of processed negatives rolled up inside a plastic film can and
thought I knew what it was because the can was labeled ...
Wrongly labeled as it turned out.
I use a naming convention of YYYYMMDD-R00n-NNN for scanning film where YYYYMMDD
is the date I took the first photo on the roll; R00n tells me if I have more
than one roll of film from a particular date and NNN corresponds to the frame
number from the film.
I've got a lot of jumbled up film with slides & slips of negatives from multiple
rolls mixed together sometimes and this scheme helps me to sort them out and it
works to let me fill in the blanks later if I find other bits & pieces.
The label on the can gave me YYYY = 2007 and I was trying to figure out the
Month & Day, but as it turns out that's irrelevant because the film is from 1998
and I know the Month & Day.
Another thing I was trying to figure out why I wasted the first 8 frames of the
roll. There's nothing on them.
About halfway through scanning the roll it clicked.
The roll is from a disposable camera and the frame numbers run backwards - Frame
27 is the first image on the roll rather than the last one and it's the last 8
images that are missing because I went ahead and had the film processed before
shooting all of the frames.
Now I all I got to do is figure out what order to rename the images because I
cut the strips as if the image order matched the frame order.
There's nothing earth shaking on the film. It's just a bunch of "grip 'n grin"
photos of awards being handed out at a company picnic. But it's one less roll of
film lost inside of a drawer.
If not exactly fun, at least it's a distraction. Baxter the cat is sick. She's
in the hospital this morning being operated on for some kind of swelling on her
face. I found it yesterday morning & took her to the vet right away & they
scheduled her for surgery this morning. The vet says it might not be cancer.
I'm just waiting for them to call me and tell me how it turned out.
I've got another film canister in my freezer, always in the way when I want to
put food in or take it out. I finally got around to opening the can to see what
it was, maybe put it in my K1000 (got a new battery for it the other day).
Turns out to be an unexposed roll of Kodachrome 25, so I guess it's just going
to have to keep cluttering up my freezer for the time being.
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