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Thanks for replying, but as stated in my OP I had already done that and found several sites and blogs that explained the batch codes, but still was having trouble with those three ones I listed. After contacting polaroidoriginals.com I did receive help with the first two, but not the last one which unlike the rest only contains 9 digits and not 11 digits. I have looked in all guides and documents I can find, and the only codes with 9 digits I find any information about also contains letters, which this code doesn't (only numbers). So question still remains, can someone decode this one? 100235422 POLAROID® 32

Hello, I was trying to date some old Polaroid photos and noticed the batch numbers on the back, I Googled and found a few guides at various sites and blogs, but I still can't fully understand it as there appears to be many different batch number formats for each type of film. First of all, I have no idea what type of film the photos are on. They look like standard Polaroid photos to me. These are three examples of the batch numbers on the back, could someone please help me to decode the films' manufacturing dates of these batch numbers? 09036081396 POLAROID® 32 04001212105 POLAROID® 32 100235422 POLAROID® 32

Thank you for the explanation!

This might be a silly question, but then again I don't know much about photography. I hope someone experienced can shed some light on this: I have a roll of negatives I was scanning. The photos on the film roll were taken by a standard consumer camera, the kind that prints a little date and time in the corner. After I had scanned the whole roll, I noticed that the dates and times were going the wrong direction. I.e. first picture is dated Nov 30 2000, 14:22, next one is Nov 28 2000, 12:40, then Nov 28 2000 11:52, and so on. It continues this way all to the end. The final picture is from Aug 8 2000, 17:32. So basically, the dates and time indicates that the photo order is entirely reversed, with the film roll starting out with the most recently taken photo from late November in the year 2000, and the last photo from August that same year. Is this even possible, and how could that have happened? Or are most likely the actual photos in right chronological order, and only the dates / times reversed (and therefore incorrect)? Unfortunately, in the case of this roll, it's not possible for me to tell by just looking at the photos if their order is reversed, I just reacted to the dates being reversed. Please let me know what you think has happened, and why. Edit: P.S. The photos do not appear upside down on the film roll, only reversed order.

Hello again, I originally thought those pictures came from my mother's old family camera, which is still in their home, but it turned out the photos were taken by my dad and that camera is gone decades ago, and he suffers from dementia so there is no way to find out what kind of camera model it was or even the brand. Yeah I was planning on trying to match up the way they were cut, but since there are so many pictures (about 100 of them I've found so far), it might be really difficult. When the film has some kind of numbers or text on them, it's way easier and I've already matched up 100s of that kind of pictures already, but most of these square-shaped ones have no writings or anything. Since I'm also suspecting there are probably several or many ones missing (could be bad or blurry pictures that were discarded), it's even harder. I noticed some of the unnumbered ones I found a day ago are significantly better looking than the example I uploaded in my original post. I know it doesn't matter to most people what order the photos were taken in, but I'm kind of nitpicky / OCD-ish when it comes to these things. ;-) Including trying to pinpoint dates or at least years. But it is what it is, I guess.

Thank you for all your additional replies and information. I found a whole freakin' box of this type of film now, except all are cut up between each picture, and most are unnumbered. They also seem scattered together like a deck of cards, so it will be next to impossible to figure out what belongs together with what. :(

I am 99% sure these are all before 1965 (I think from around 1950), so I suppose they must be 120 film then. So 12 images per roll then. Thank you so much for the info Colin.

Thank you for your reply. I just now noticed some of them look a little different than what I described in the original post. Right now I'm looking at some that measure 56 x 56 (like you mentioned), and this particular roll has some info written on it. It says ADOX R 18 P at the bottom and there are numbers above the pictures, 1A, 1, 2A etc, although the numbers are not positioned right above each picture (for example the one I'm looking at now has 5A right above one picture, then the next picture says both 6 and 6A above it. Is it possible to say approximately how many pictures one of these film rolls held? That is really the most important thing, as I'm trying to pair these cut up film rolls together. The ones with numbers are of course easier, but the one in the first example has no numbers or info at all, so I really would like to know approx. how many pictures one roll could hold. I have a good idea which camera was used. I believe it looked something like this https://c.pxhere.com/photos/22/3d/camera_old_camera_adina_box_camera_nostalgia_old_retro_photographica-610991.jpg!d I think the camera I am thinking of still might be at my parents' home somewhere, so I might be able to find out the exact camera model, if that would be of any help?

I am scanning some old family photos, and came across some quite old b&w strips of films I am not familiar with. Each picture on the strip is approx. 53mm by 55mm in size. The strips themselves are approximately 60 mm wide. The length varies, as some of them contain only 7 pictures and some as many as 12 (possibly some belonged together and have been cut / separated). There is no information at all on the filmstrips such as model / make etc. The pictures on the strips are not numbered. I am attaching a scan of one of the filmstrips. I am interested to know: 1. What kind of film is this and what type of camera was it used in? 2. What years / decades was this type of film sold and used? 3. How many pictures did each film roll hold (I am asking because I am trying to figure out if there were film rolls with as few as 7 pictures, or if these have been separated and so I would need to try to pair them together)? PS: I am not a photographer so I know nothing about film, that is why I am asking here.

Hi, Tried to post a thread in the Film and Processing section and I wanted to attach a couple of photo uploads. The site wouldn't let me upload photo number 2, it said "There was a problem uploading your file.". I adjusted the file size so that it was actually smaller than the photo that the site did accept, but to no avail. I therefore uploaded the picture to an external photo host and included a link to it, then I got this error message instead: "Your content can not be submitted. This is likely because your content is spam-like or contains inappropriate elements. Please change your content or try again later. If you still have problems, please contact an administrator." What is wrong? And how do I contact an admin?

<p>Thank you all for your responses!<br /> I'm using Windows. I don't really use any post processing software, but I do have IrfanView (and Photoshop) installed on my computer, didn't know IrfanView could be used for post editing though.<br /> Well, these negatives most likely more like mid-1970s. I think the samples I posted earlier might have been from 1974 or 1975. While I have scanned many Kodak Safety Film, model "5035", from the mid 70s, that all have turned out great, all these greenish negatives (I have found more of them since my last post) appear to come from another type of Kodak Safety Film where no model number mentioned. I know they are the same though as the layout is the same for all of them: http://oi63.tinypic.com/6hp63b.jpg<br /> Another thing that is a bit odd is that when I choose "Color Negative Film" in Epson Scan, the pictures come out solid green. I am forced to select "B&W Negative Film" (but scan as 24 or 48-bit color) for any color restoration to even be possible. Maybe it is like Ted Marcus said that these particular negatives are on C-22 film and that is why the scanner software is behaving odd. The fact that they are post-1973 does not necessarily mean they are on C-41, as they could have been some old film rolls purchased before 1973 that ended up not being used right away. I just don't know, it was my father who took all these photos.<br /> If they were simply deteriorated due to age I wouldn't really care so much, but if they were possible to somehow improve more than the color corrected ones I posted, of course that would be great -- I just don't have time to be playing around with it too much as I have so many more to scan and my time is limited. I would rather just pay someone $$$ to help me find the right auto color correct plugin for Photoshop or whatever, hah. :-)<br /> Anyway, thanks for the info.</p>

<p>Hello,<br> <br />I'm not a photographer, I'm just a person trying to scan some old (circa 1970) family negatives and slides. I'm using an Epson Perfection V800 Photo scanner and the included software (EPSON Scan). For the most part, the negatives come out looking great, but I'm having trouble with a few that all appears to come from the same roll of film. The negatives look very green, and even after being scanned, they look green. If I use the software's "Color Restoration" feature, it takes <em>some</em> of the green away and generates some normal colors, but the upper and lower part of each picture still has a greenish/yellowish field. What exactly is wrong with these negatives, or what am I doing wrong? Are they damaged or tainted or were they originally developed wrong? I'm going to post a couple links with examples of what they look like:<br> <br />What the negatives look like without color restoration: http://oi67.tinypic.com/14in2uc.jpg<br> After color restoration: http://oi66.tinypic.com/15ydrq.jpg<br> Some of them end up not looking quite as awful as the above example, but still far from acceptable: http://oi65.tinypic.com/23tm3m.jpg<br> <br />So what exactly is up with these? Any suggestions or input would be appreciated!</p>