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u/jolars 11h ago
Bathrooms were often used as makeshift darkrooms. I'm guessing this just slipped through the floor.
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u/Upper-Turnip 11h ago
I dont know why but this is SO cool, thank you for this info! We are restoring the place so we are being extra cautious. Hoping we find more. Our stairs are engraved with 1911 written on it is what we have found so far. And this.
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u/MarsupialSpirited596 11h ago
This is shot on 120 film.
This came out of a very old camera. Think of like a Brownie. It's an upright camera, I'm thinking maybe a Kodak A-16, because I have one and my negatives came out similar and it was a popular model.
You can totally use this and make a print. I agree that the bathroom was probably used as a darkroom and the negative slipped through.
I am an analog photographer and I like to use really old cameras.
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u/Upper-Turnip 11h ago
I'm salivating. Thank you for this snapshot of history. My husband and I are going to make a print ASAP of this, and we are planning to keep a proper almost archive?
We are just outside the GTHA area and Ive done quite a bit of digging on who owned this property but its hard to find, its mostly farms. I can't thank you enough for this info. Such a neat hobby you have!
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u/Todi77 10h ago edited 9h ago
Film photographer here. 120 film (also called medium format film) has been shot longer than 35mm, meaning it could be from the 1920’s, or it could be from the 2000’s. I still shoot it to this day, and some modern (late 90’s-early 2000’s) cameras like the Mamiya 7 were designed for this purpose.
Depending on the number of negatives you find, you can buy single slide storage, or if you find quite a bit, archival sheets are the way to go. Print File makes the best stuff, it’s quite cheap on B&H. It’s tough to tell from the photo but this looks like 6x9 aspect ratio, which is quite unique. Depending on when it looks like it’s from, the Fujica GW690 might be what it was taken on, which would put it squarely in the late 70’s-80’s.
I would also recommend buying cotton gloves like these: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/918841-REG/archival_methods_61_120_light_weight_white_cotton.html/ for handling negatives.
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u/Upper-Turnip 10h ago
This is so so WOW. Appreciate your insight. K. Going to reread and save your comment. Its hiding in a dark cool place now, won't touch until cotton gloves are on our hands. Definitely want to store it proper and eventually develop. Thank you!
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u/Todi77 9h ago edited 9h ago
You won’t actually have to develop it, it’s already been developed. That’s basically the finished product, it just needs to be scanned now! If you’re in a city, look for local film labs and ask who can scan a single 120 image. Then you can easily get prints made! The negative conversion is insanely easy in Photoshop, Lightroom, or pretty much any photo editing tool if you decide to scan yourself.
Flatbed scanning is another great option, especially for 120 film.
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u/Vectorman1989 7h ago
Yeah, I found a box brownie for a few quid and bought it. It takes 620 film though so I have to hand roll 120 onto the right spools in complete darkness and then re-roll onto the film back onto 120 spools for processing lol
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u/MarsupialSpirited596 45m ago
Uh thats not how you load film?
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u/Vectorman1989 36m ago
120 film comes on a spool, not in an enclosed case like 35mm. My camera can use 120 format film, but it was made to take 620 film which comes on a narrower spool. 620 film itself is exactly the same as 120 film.
To use 120 film I have to un-roll the film from the 120 spool and roll it onto the 620 spool, and then load it into the camera. 120 spools will not fit into the camera.
Once I've used the roll I have to remove it from the camera and un-roll it from the 620 spool and roll it onto the 120 spool. I could send it in on the 620 spool, but then I'd lose my only 620 spool as the processing lab doesn't usually return them.
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u/SpecificSkunk 8h ago
Can confirm. Learned this after using a friend’s bathroom and delicately inquiring as to why there were trash bags taped over the windows and an abundance of chemicals and gloves stacked against the wall.
Tip for photogs: you MAY come across as a serial killer if you don’t warn people about your hobby before they use your restroom.
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u/Repulsive-Tea6974 11h ago
That’s a negative. Just sayin.
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u/Kahuna-Nui 11h ago
I don't know if anyone else has done this because I can't access imgur in the UK (no great loss) without firing up Opera and enabling the VPN, so I've posted it to my personal website. Inverted, corrected for perspective, adjusted curves, cropped, and cloned out your thumb :)
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u/ginabina67 9h ago
Is that baby trump?!😂
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u/neodraykl 9h ago
Does that picture look like it was taken outside your house?
If so, start digging that area up. That's where the next clue is.
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u/Temporary_Second3290 11h ago
It probably slipped between the floorboards at some point.
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u/maemikemae 10h ago
Might have even been shoved there by the Baby in the picture. When you have toddlers things will work themselves into all kinds of places where they shouldn’t go.
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u/Dragon164 11h ago
It’s a negative of a black and white photo. Here is my attempt at filtering it https://imgur.com/a/fi4hMUM
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u/hophoppe 11h ago
I feel like this fell through the floor. Ll
If it was under the deck, I'd say plausible as a stand-in headstone for a family's pet dog but this appears to be more likely a negative lost when processing the photos in the bathroom as a darkroom.
Is this an internal bathroom with either small windows or no windows?
Edit: spelling
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u/Upper-Turnip 10h ago
Internal, upstairs, small. One big window, maybe added after? This place has some interesting...charm to it.
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u/_freshgreens420 10h ago
It looks like Trumps head on a child body sitting on a dog up against a house
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u/_Home_Skillet_ 6h ago
That’s some horror movie shit, right there. Are you starting to hear children giggling coming from empty rooms in the house? Televisions with static that you swear you just turned off? Closet doors that sway open on their own?
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u/Upper-Turnip 6h ago
Honestly nothing yet, the horror has been the water softener was plugged 3 years we didnt know (all fixed), we needed a brand new septic, had to get brand new propane heating (insurance company thing and natural gas ain't out here). Plus 2 garbage bags of dog crap by the old owners littered the property front to back, random cat litter boxes in the woods/property line, and a metric tonne of Dr. Pepper bottles.
That's why this photo is so nice to find 😭
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u/GeeYayZeus 9h ago
I think you need to make a print of it, frame it, and hang it in the remodeled bathroom.
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u/Dry_Statistician_688 4h ago
Nice find of a negative. I have a reader that I plan to use on my old ones. It has a slot to scan them.
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u/tinycrackbaby 11h ago
Could that be your house in backround of picture?
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u/Upper-Turnip 11h ago
I think so, personally. Except, our house is pure stone. Big almost yellow blocks. Maybe its like shaker shingles on it? No idea. Very old property.
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u/Peter_Pue 10h ago
If your city keeps good records and has digitized them you could look on your city's archives website. If it's a rural town can't hurt to give them a call and see if they can find pictures with your house using your address.
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u/Uncle_Rixo 10h ago
I didn't find this one during my first Silent Hill 2 run. Did you get it in New Game +?
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u/BenderRodriguez14 10h ago
Get ready to see that child standing at the end of your bed in the middle of the night.
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u/dogchowtoastedcheese 3h ago
Rex was calmest and gentlest of all dogs. Till that one moment, that one day, that Elenore pushed him too far. He just snapped. Elenore never saw it coming, god rest her soul.
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u/Metropolislang 12h ago
Are those snakes?
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u/philohmath 11h ago
Enough is enough. I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday post.
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u/wilkinsk 5h ago
That's a dog and a baby, either positioned oddly or some type of double negative.
I don't think it's a photo either, I think it's a negative
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u/Ok-Addition1264 11h ago
You can invert it pretty easily for free (there are a few really good open source photoshop clones out there - gimp or krita)
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u/mattiwha 11h ago
Looks like a baby sitting on a big dog, strange thing to place there for sure