Kodak Kodacolor

The back of my old Dodge motorhome. My girlfriend found an old Instamatic camera for my collection and got it because it had a roll of film in it. It had been loaded and wound to the first frame, but since it sat in the camera for around 40 years, the first frame and a half had possibly (probably) been exposed many times. I shot the roll and developed it today to see if I any pictures on the roll turned out. They were quite faded and suffered heavy color shift, but I got useable images! The roll was in a Kodak Instamatic 154 when she bought it, but I transferred it to a Kodak Instamatic 104, and then finished it up in a Kodak Instamatic X-15, both cameras that I’ve had for awhile and been wanting to shoot with. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 4 (Camerosity code YTSA – 09/72) Lens: Plastic 43mm Meniscus Film: Kodak Kodacolor II (long expired) Shutter Speed: 1/90 Aperture: F/11 Date: October 23rd, 2019, 2.45 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes (to keep chemicals clean) Blix: 6 ½ minutes at 102 degrees Water rinse: 2 minutes at approx. 100 degrees Stabilizer: 1 minute at room temperature Water rinse: 2 minutes Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Kodak X-15-4 Kodacolor II 09ff

This was a picture of my Dad on his birthday, which was December 11th. The picture was taken exactly 34 years ago today. Everyone's laughing because, apparently, my sister got him some bikini underwear as a gag gift. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor VR 100 Date: December 11th, 1985 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta Kodak CP 100 5094 Lincoln 07ff

I happened to catch this conjunction of the moon and Venus when I was using my high school's yearbook camera - a Konica Autoreflex TC. I was the yearbook photographer that year, my senior year. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 Date: August 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica KSF 5035 Conjunction 02-1gf

It's sad that these people lost their home going into a new year. A house fire I covered for the local press back in the day. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor VR 100 Date: Januiary 1st, 1985 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta VR 400 New Year's Eve 1984 19gf

The aftermath of a house fire I shot at the beginning of 1985. Looks like they lost everything. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor VR 100 Date: January 2nd, 1985 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta VR 400 New Year's Eve 1984 25df

A shot of my immediate family I took back in September 1978. I'm the tallest one standing. This was at the back part of our land where we could have picnics away from the highway. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC (first version) Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm, f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 35mm Program: Aperture Priority Date: September 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica TC KSF 5035 24jf

Taken on a snowy and cloudy afternoon back in February 1978. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm, f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor II 100 ASA 35mm Date: February 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica KSF 5075 Feb 1978 09ef

A shot of the television screen. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor, 100 ASA 35mm Date: circa 1979 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. XD11 Kodak 5035 CBS 18gf

There will be a solar eclipse of the sun this year, and Carbondale, Illinois is the approximate point of greatest duration of totality. Carbondale is about an hour from where I live. At approximately 1:20 p.m. C.D.T. on Monday, August 21st, 2017, we here will experience the total solar eclipse for 2 minutes and 38 seconds. I plan on being there to photograph it, of course. The picture above was taken during the last total eclipse over Amerca, back in 1979. It didn't actually reach totality here in Norris City, though. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta 300mm Film: Kodak Kodacolor, 100 ASA 35mm Date: February 26th, 1979 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF 5035 Eclipse-1 09gff

This picture was taken during the last total eclipse over Amerca, back on February 26th, 1979. It's actually an image taken of the television screen, probably during the evening news, as it didn't quite reach totality here where I live. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor, 100 ASA 35mm Date: February 26th, 1979 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF 5035 Eclipse-2 25ff

I'll bet not many people will be able to guess what this is. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor, 100 ASA 35mm Shutter Speed: "B" Date: circa 1979 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Kodak 5035 Icicle 11lf

A timed exposure from back in 1978. It was a six-inch long glow-in-the-dark icicle Christmas tree decoration that I sat on my turntable and turned it on. As it spun during the timed exposure, it left this pattern. Camera: Konica Autoreflex TC Lens: Konica Hexanon AR 50mm f/1.7 Film: Kodak Kodacolor 100 Date: 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Konica 5035 Laurie 11nf

A picture of the family Christmas tree out of focus. I love how the shutter blades look on my Minolta. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor, 100 ASA 35mm Date: December 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF 5035 Christmas 1978 14hf

A closeup of the family Christmas tree, from 1977. I hadn't learned what the closest focusing range of my old Kodak was just yet! Camera: Kodak 35 RF rangefinder (made in 1948) Lens: Kodak Anastar 50mm, f/3.5 Film: Kodak Kodacolor, 100 ASA 35mm Exposure mode: Manual (of course!) Date: December 1977 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Kodak 35RF KSF5035 Christmas 1977 04ff (4x6)

A nativity scene my late Mother arranged on our shelf. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor, 100 ASA 35mm Date: December 1978 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF 5035 Christmas 1978 12ff

Taken with a Minolta XD11 35mm SLR and Kodak Kodacolor II 100 ASA film, circa 1979.

Coming home from college one night in 1979. It was taken while I was sitting at a stoplight. That's it along the right edge. Camera: Minolta XD11 Lens: Minolta MD Rokkor-X 50mm, f/1.2 Film: Kodak Kodacolor II, 100 ASA 35mm Date: November 1979 Location: Eldorado, Illinois, U.S.A. Minolta KSF5075 College 16ef

This was my family's house back about late October 1978. Taken with my Minolta XD11 and Kodak Kodacolor film.