Found Film in a Kodak Pony 828

I bought a Kodak Pony 828 camera this past weekend, and inside of it was a roll of exposed Verichrome Pan 828 film. I developed it today for six minutes in Kodak HC-110 dil. B. with two inversions every 30 seconds.

The first three frames were visibly exposed on the roll of eight, so it looks like somebody took a couple of photos and then forgot about the camera and the roll got would to the end. The backing paper lists an ASA of 125, so this film has to date from between 1964 when Kodak removed the double safety factor from their films and when 828 film was discontinued in 1985. I would hazard a guess that the film was shot sometime in the late 60s or 70s based on the age of the camera and what looks to be part of VW bus visible behind the heating oil tank in the third photo.

All three photos turned out to be of dogs. I don't scan negatives much, so I could probably get better results with more practice, but these results seemed ok for web posting.

Nice find. People remember their pets so if the owners of the dogs are still living and were to see these photos they would likely remember the dogs.

While the Pony series had only modest specs, they were good picture takers.

Thanks for sharing.

Today, a standard VW Kombi sells for $10,000 there abouts. If it is a walk-through Microbus with windows in the roof, it will fetch $175,000 restored

Nice recovery of pics