Old Slide Film
September 27, 2024
Tags: photography gallery fujigs645s
Part of the fun of getting this blog up and running was not just about re-learning some programming tips or to work on my writing, even though these are both very large positives. No, I really wanted to use this website to be able to talk about film cameras and share some developed film with whomever may want to see them. Since I had an obsession with film cameras going back a decade or more, I have a lot of cameras with partially shot film just hanging around. 2024 was my year to start digging around storage and getting those cameras out and finishing off the rolls AND actually get those bastards developed. I know I’ve talked about developing these tiny time capsules, but it really is amazing to see old photos resurface in a way that scrolling through your camera roll just cannot replicate.
Enter the Fujifilm GS645s.
I love this camera… in theory. It’s portrait orientation (just like a half-frame or the most excellent Big Shot!), it’s a rangefinder, it hangs from the straps in a bad-ass way and it has this bizarre roll-cage around the lens. Apparently the story goes that this lens is notoriously fragile, so to help protect it from getting straight sheered off, Fujifilm engineers put this curly plastic cage around 3/4 of the camera lens. Whether or not that’s true I don’t know, but it sounds plausible considering I have seen broken lenses on the internet and if its on the internet, it has to be true! So after some years I’ve finally finished off a roll of slide film and got it developed! Apparently this camera secretly rules and once I finish off some other projects I’m going to devote some very padded space in my bag for this thing full-time. I didn’t nail every shot but there is potential here. I need to take it back out, slow down, and really put it through its paces.
P.S. I absolutely do not endorse Kennedy for president, nor anyone he is associated with but I was shooting slide film and these dumb idiot mural was just too colorful not to shoot. Fuck that guy.
The camera used to shoot this film was the Fuji GS645s
A medium format rangefinder, great for portraits!
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