Once I hit the end of the roll, I rewound it and kept it inside the camera until I dropped it off at the local drug store to have them develop the film (when that was still a thing). Locked and loaded, I took the camera on a little road trip I was taking with my then-girlfriend and gave it my best to make the most of my first roll of film.Īs you can tell from the fact only eight of the 24 photographs turned out, I managed to advance the film too many times out of caution and also failed to properly expose about half of the frames (I’ll blame the broken internal light meter for this one).
After purchasing it, for around $.50, I clumsily opened up the back of the Yashica, pulled the leader from the film canister, attached it to the winding mechanism, closed the back and crossed my fingers in hopes the film had actually caught. So, when my grandfather had brought out his old Yashica on a family visit, I knew I had to take it for a spin, to see what the world of analog was all about.ĭespite knowing almost nothing about film photography at the time, I went to the nearest flea market I frequented and picked up a lonely roll of Kodak Gold 100 I remembered seeing on a prior visit. It was all for fun and in no way professional at that time in my life, but I had the photo bug, and I couldn't help but to want to shoot whatever and whenever I could. This roll, which was a very expired 24-exposure canister of Kodak Gold 100, was shot with a Yashica TL through a Mamiya Sekor 50mm F1.4 lens.Īt the time of capture, which would’ve been in year 11 (circa 2009), I had been photographing with an inherited Canon Rebel xT DSLR with a kit lens attached for roughly a year, sneaking off whenever I found the time between school and extra curriculars. In fact, they’re downright terrible, technically speaking. To kick things off, I figured it’d be appropriate to share with you the first ever roll of film I photographed.Īs is to be expected, the images from the roll are nothing special. As time goes on, we’re hoping to bring our Film Friday articles more in-house with original content captured and written by myself and other DPReview contributors. This week, we’re changing things up a bit. (Expired) Kodak Gold 100 shot with a Mamiya Sekor 50mm F1.4 lens on Yashica TL.
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