Halina 35x super. I have aquired this camera and am not sure which type of film to use.

The thing is i want to use the camera to try and reproduce the aeshetic of dated

photographs, colour photographs from the 70s, grainy blurry images with unatural

colour. Is it possible to achieve such effects with a camera or is it down to

the type of film i use and how they are developed?<div></div>

Dan, I the colour effect you are seeing is a degrading and colour changing of the printed photo's dyes over time. It probably looked a darn sight better when fresh. Of course the grain is a reflection of film technology at the time and the blurring the fault of the operator using a far too slow shutter speed or a very poor lens.

 

All these "effects" can be accomplished on a modern photo with photo editing software.

 

As a sort of demonstration here's the photo after the reverse treatment. Clearly if one can change in one direction the opposite will be true. A modern good photo could be made to look like an old time worn one.

Buy old out-of-date film... or buy new film and leave it in your hot car. Film discolors naturally with time and heat. Results will be unpredictable. Grainy images are usually due to using old fast films which tended to be very grainy, newer films are much finer grained, but if you buy super cheap grochery store branded film, sometimes its pretty bad. Blurry images are usually due to not bothering to focus, and moving the camera while you are taking the photo. Alcohol would probably help. Cameras with plastic lenses usually give MUCH worse images than ones with glass lenses... even the cheapest glass lenses are pretty sharp. Try getting one of those cheap cameras from a thrift store that are all plastic, (basically a reusable disposable camera), buy the cheapest film you can find, and move around alot when you press the shutter. Heating the film and dropping it in water and letting it dry prior to processing will add to the charm.

It uses 35mm film. Use any coluor print film. Achieve your effects in photoshop. It's the easiest way.

As they say, this is just dyes in the picture shifting. Often just auto-color and auto contrast in Photoshop will correct this. To achieve the same in reverse, you need to go into color adjustment and pump up magenta and cyan.<div></div>

The blurriness and other such characteristics are 'left as a demonstration to the reader', but here is an example of a picture artificially aged as indicated above.<div></div>

Yes... the yellow dye fades out of most color negatives and slides. You can lower the saturation of yellow in the image to do this digitally. A magenta filter over the lens might give a similar effect in-camera with more dependable films.

It is an inexpensive 35mm camera made by Haking of Hong Kong, it has a value of $20 to $30 dollars and was also known as a Micaronta 35X.

 

Lynn