PHOTOGRAPHY 2022: 35mm and Instamatic

Yet another view back on my photography in 2022 and we're finally getting to the "real" stuff aka film, with this post being all about the small formats.

Not only didn't I shoot a lot, but sadly one film was completely unexposed, because my "pseudorama" toy camera was broken. At least I immediately found a proper new replacement for that one. A couple of pictures from December are actually still in that Cypréa Two-Way Cam, because I haven't finished my recent film yet. So if one of those is the absolute money shot I'll show it later in a seperate post I guess.

Here's a selection from the rest, starting in March with the La Sardina Belle Starr and expired Kodak Portra 400 NC of unknown age:  

Needed a long time - from mid June in Berlin (really just the first picture here) to October in the Netherlands to fill the expired Kodak Ektachrome 320 in one of my good old Chupa Chups Photo Pops:

Yeah. And that was almost all. Here's my first film (another expired Kodak Portra 400NC) with the new Cypréa, exposed in May and June:

Not 35mm, but an similarly small square format is the rare Instamatic format, which I used in Berlin. I already presented the complete Kodacolor VR CL 126 film in a seperate post, so here are just two of its twenty-four frames as a sample. Damn, I wish those things were easier to get!

Next up: medium format!

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It took me an extra round to get the analogue pictures from my June trip to Berlin (where I saw Kikagaku Moyo, Mong Tong, Björk and the Quartet Berlin-Tokyo live and also shot a lot of Digital Harinezumi picures) to a laboratory that would develop them. Not many of those are working with Instamatic film anymore, which shouldn't come as a huge surprise, since noone has  been producing this material for years now. Which is a shame, since I really love these primitive Kodak cameras and the small square format.

I don't even know how old this cartridge of Kodacolor VR CL 126 was, but it must have expired in the 1990s, if not even 1980s for sure.

The photo service which ultimately ended up developing my film ironically has its store in Berlin, not far from Alexanderplatz - just where I shot my last frame. So in hindsight I really could have saved myself some time and trouble here.

At least I now know what do do once I decide to fill my other 126 film - which only has twelve black and white frames. But back to this one: I probably could have been a little more creative or at least picky with some subjects, but overall I'm quite happy with the results, since where the photographer was lacking, the expired colours and shit of course saved the day.

After that last shot I switched to medium format and my Adox Golf filled with Orwo NP 15 (expired 05/1991). I only took one picture with it in Berlin though, so here is that one as a bonus: