HaarFager's photos with the keyword: Instamatic X-15

The clock tower in Marion, Illinois. It said "2 O'Clock," but it was actually 3 p.m. This was taken with an old Kodak Instamtic camera by reloading 35mm film into a 126 film cartridge and shooting with it. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 4 (Camerosity code YTSA - Period 09/72) Film: Kodak Max 400 (Expired) Shutter Speed: 1/90 Aperture: f/11 Date: October 29th, 2019, 3.00 p.m. Location: Marion, 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 Kodak Max 400 2019 07if

The television show "Star Trek" lasted three seasons from 1966 -1969; then it was cancelled. But, there was something about the show that appealed to viewers and it just wouldn't die. About the mid-1970s, it was becoming more and more popular and there were even conventions being held for everything Star Trek. I watched the show back in the 1960s, so by the mid-1970s, even I could tell there was something special about the show, even located like I was in a small town in Southern Illinois. A local television station out of Evansville, Indiana would broadcast repeats of Star Trek every Sunday night at midnight. (Technically, Monday morning.) For me, who was still in school, it would be the last thing I enjoyed each weekend before school started again on Monday. I watched these repeats faithfully and even recorded the audio of the episodes on cassette tape and took pictures of the TV screen. This is one such picture I captured in 1977. All this attention for the show finally culminated with the big screen return of Star Trek - "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." The whole Star Trek phenomenon has become engrained in our culture. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 126 film camera Film: Kodak B&W 126 film Shutter Speed: 1/45 of a second Aperture: f/11 Date: 1977 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Star Trek 126 B&W 08-2ff

Taken one night when I had to stop by the local Pizza Hut. As it was an old Kodak Instamatic camera, I didn't know if it would turn out, but I got what I was hoping for. Taken with an old Kodak Instamatic camera with 35mm film reloaded into an old 126 cartridge. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 1 (Camerosity code YTSC - Period 09/71) Film: Agfa Photo Vista Plus 400 (35mm film reloaded into a 126 cartridge, expired on 10/2018) Shutter Speed: 1/45th of a second (1/90 without a flashcube attached) Aperture: f/11 Date: February 27th, 2023, 7.51 p.m. Location: Carmi, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 mins. and 40 secs. 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-15-1 Vista Plus 400 2023 21if

Taken at a local Mexican restaurant where I was being treated to a birthday dinner. I used a Magicube attached on the Instamatic for the lighting. This shot was taken with my eighteenth camera, which I've had since the 1970s. The owner of the restaurant saw my Instamatic with the flashcube attached and came over and commented on it. He said he used to have one just like it back in the late 1970s. I said I did, too, and this was it. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 1 (Camerosity code YTSC - Period 09/71) Film: Agfa Photo Vista Plus 400 (35mm film reloaded into a 126 cartridge, expired on 10/2018) Shutter Speed: 1/45th of a second (1/90 without a flashcube attached) Aperture: f/11 Date: February 27th, 2023, 7.21 p.m. Location: Carmi, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 mins. and 40 secs. 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-15-1 Vista Plus 400 2023 24ef

These are the feet of a tall statue that promotes a local grocery store. The statue used to be called “Big John,” when he represented the local Big John chain of grocery stores. But, now that Big Johns is not here anymore, somebody bought the old statue and renamed him the “Little Giant.” Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 2 (Camerosity code YASR - Period 02/75) Film: Agfa Photo Vista Plus 400 (35mm film reloaded into a 126 cartridge) Shutter Speed: 1/90 Aperture: f/11 Date: March 6th, 2023, 11.30 a.m. Location: Carmi, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 mins. and 40 secs. 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-15-2 Vista Plus 400 2023 10mf

The Villagers' Voice is my town's local newspaper. It comes out once a week. I guess not much happens around here. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 4 (Camerosity code YTSA - Period 09/72) Film: Agfa Photo Vista Plus 400 (35mm film reloaded into a 126 cartridge) Shutter Speed: 1/90 Aperture: f/11 Date: April 5th, 2021, 1.25 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 mins. and 40 secs. 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 Agfa Vista Plus 400 2021 08ef

Just three random guys I met who were hanging out downtown. They were gracious enough to pose for my Instamatic. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 4 (Camerosity code YTSA - Period 09/72) Film: Agfa Photo Vista Plus 400 (35mm film reloaded into a 126 cartridge) Shutter Speed: 1/90 Aperture: f/11 Date: April 11th, 2021, 5.00 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 mins. and 40 secs. 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 Agfa Vista Plus 400 2021 25ff

A fireplug in the heart of my downtown. All the plug-ins to the right are for the vendors who set up around there for our local street fair in September. This was some regular 35mm film that I reloaded into an old 50-year-old Kodak Kodacolor-X 126 cartridge. I only scanned the usuable area in between the sprocket holes along each edge. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 4 (Camerosity code YTSA - Period 09/72) Film: Agfa Photo Vista Plus 400 Shutter Speed: 1/90 Aperture: f/11 Date: April 5th, 2021, 1.33 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals: Unicolor C-41 Water pre-soak: 1 minute at 102 degrees Developer: 3 mins. and 40 secs. 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 Agfa Vista Plus 400 2021 10df

An ice cream shop in a neighboring town. I respooled 35mm film into a 126 cartridge and left the sprocket holes showing at the top. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 4 (Camerosity code YTSA - Period 09/72) Film: Kodak Max 400 (Expired) Shutter Speed: 1/90 Aperture: f/11 Date: October 29th, 2019, 2.27 p.m. Location: Eldorado, 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 Kodak Max 400 2019 05ef

Every year since the 1970s, I photograph this tree at the edge of my town when the leaves turn at Autumn. This is a shot from 2019. This was 35mm film that I respooled into a 126 cartridge. Instamatics always took more picture area on the negative than was printed out. Prints from 126 were always printed out to be square. So, I cropped this one to be square. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 4 (Camerosity code YTSA - Period 09/72) Film: Kodak Max 400 (expired) 35mm film reloaded in a 126 cartridge Shutter Speed: 1/90 Aperture: f/11 Date: October 29th, 2019, 1.59 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 Kodak Max 400 2019 02-2ff

I saw this dog sticking his head out of the window while I was driving down the road. There were sprocket holes along the top of the frame, but I cropped those out. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 4 (Camerosity code YTSA - Period 09/72) Film: Kodak Max 400 (Expired) Shutter Speed: 1/90 Aperture: f/11 Date: October 29th, 2019, 2.55 p.m. Location: Marion, 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 Kodak Max 400 2019 06-2df

This is the first daffodil flower to bloom out in my yard. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 2 (Camerosity code YTSC – 09/71) Film: Fuji Film Fujicolor 200 (expired 2010) 35mm film respooled in a 126 cartridge Lens: Plastic 43mm Meniscus Aperture: F/11 Shutter Speed: 1/90 Date: March 20th, 2020, 12.16 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 X-15-2 Fuji 200 2020 03-2ef

This is an old hand tool I used in my yard the other day - it belonged to my Grandfather. It is for the Saturday Self-Challenge group, who's theme this week was "Obsolete." Weed-eaters have pretty much made scythes obsolete here in the United States, but there are several areas around the world where they're still used. Taken with a Kodak Instamatic X-15 camera on film (despite what everyone might think - film is not even close to being obsolete), but because 126 film is obsolete and not made anymore, I had to reload a 126 cartridge with 35mm film. This was my first attempt at doing that - if the film hadn't been expired, it would have turned out even better and a lot less grainy. I even used a flashcube for a little fill lighting (actually a Magicube) for this shot as well - because it was heavily overcast. Talk about old school! Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 4 (made in 1972) Film: Kodak Max 400 (expired) Shutter Speed: 1/90 Aperture: f/11 Date: October 31st, 2019, 3.44 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 Kodak Max 400 2019 14-2hf

If The Rolling Stones mashed together their songs “Dead Flowers” and “Wild Horses,” they’d get “Dead Horses.” My first attempt at reloading 35mm film into a 126 film cartridge and shooting it in an Instamatic camera. I cropped out the sprocket holes from the 35mm film so it would look more like an Instamatic photo should look - that is, square. Camera: Kodak Instamatic X-15 No. 4 (Camerosity code YTSA - Period 09/72) Film: Kodak Max 400 (Expired) Shutter Speed: 1/90 Aperture: f/11 Date: October 29th, 2019, 2.20 p.m. Location: Eldorado, 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 Kodak Max 400 2019 04lf

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

There was a local automobile dealer who was having a promotion in McLeansboro, Illinois, back around 1977 when the new 1978 model year of cars were being released, and one of the special guests to appear was Bob Denver, best known as "Gilligan" from the 1960's television series, "Gilligan's Island." He was real nice to pose for me! Taken with a Kodak Instamatic X-15 when I was 16 years old. On the island, Gilligan never smoked. Gilligan Trek 05-2df

This is the camera I bought recently that came with an unopened box of Kodak 126 film.

This is what the insides of my new Kodak Instamatic X-15 looks like - you can see the chamber where the 126 cartridge fits in. (Not that I needed a fourth X-15!) What's significant about that is I picked this up from an online auction and it also included an old, expired roll of 126 film that had never been opened! Now I will have a 126 cartridge to play with and reload with 35mm film. And that means I can shoot with some of my old 126 cameras that I haven't been able to use yet. For some reason, there are 14 126 cameras in my collection.