It's written in stone
(by default)
A few months ago, maybe even a year, I bought some amount of rolls of 35mm film from Kono!. Because of quantity and as a welcome bonus, Kono! offered me a free roll of 24 frames and asked me to choose between a colour one and b&w one. I don’t do a lot of colour film photography, for me film is b&w so, I chose “The Kono! Reanimated Film”.
About three weeks ago I loaded the film into a camera and I went to the beach. Kono! being a German company, I picked the Zeiss Colora camera. On the box film is rated at ISO 100-200 and that wasn’t a problem for a sunny day. As you can see from the photos, the film is contrasty and I think that suited the subject. You might notice a bit of vignetting in some of the photos but that is not the film, is the camera in sunny conditions without any filter attached.
What I didn’t realise is the small writing on the film’s cassette and box: “Frames may show pre-exposed numbers and letters”. I chose the film those few months ago especially for this, it was presented as a kind of experimental film which I thought it would be interesting and I completely forgot about it until the guys at the lab pointed out to me. Now, the pre-exposed writing is not on every single frame, it is only on 25% of it and after I scanned the film I realise that those frames could have been used in a more artistic/creative way. I leave you with the results. As usual, comments are open for everybody.
Awesome results! I've tested out this film in the past; it's a sound recording film, so it will expose the sound information in two strips (stereo), which leaves a rebate between them, which is why there's the information in the middle.
Nice pictures. The ones with the number and letters seem to me like those pictures of samples a scientist would take. Very organized and obscure.