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Another experiment with film photography. This Ricoh XR-1 originally belonged to my uncle. I've had it for a while but never used it until I decided to put a roll of film in it a couple of weeks ago. I don't know exactly how old this one is (the model was originally released in 1977) but it hadn't been used for at least 15 years. I had no idea if it was going to still work but gave it a good clean, put some new batteries in it at which point the light meter started working (it is fully manual operation apart with the batteries only used for the light meter). While the photos I took with it maybe aren't particularly exciting, it did prove that the camera works. The only thing I found didn’t work is the counter so it was hard to track how many photos I had taken. The film was Fujifilm C200.

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B 10mo ago

You may have just inspired me to dig out my old camera!

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phil 10mo ago

It’s fun to experiment with these old cameras and I think film photos have a look that is hard to replicate with digital.

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B 10mo ago

I love black and white photos from old cameras/film.

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phil 10mo ago

I just dropped off another roll of black and white film (from my other film camera) to be developed. I’m looking forward to getting those a back too.

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