I recently decided to dip my toes back into film photography along with my work with my DSLR. When I took journalism in high school, I used a Canon 35mm SLR, I don’t recall the exact model. My family with the exception of my great grandmother, who had a contax, mostly had cheap throw away point and shoots or those 110 candy bar shaped cameras.
Looking back at the family photo’s most of them were not terrible. So I figured why not find one of these little cheap kodak cameras from the early 90’s and see what it can do? Enter the Kodak KB18 purchased still sealed in its original packaging for the mighty sum of 20 us dollars.
The film inside the package expired in March of 2002 just a month before I would be graduating high school. I have stored it in the freezer, and I will probably shoot it at some point in the future just to see what’s left of the film.
For my very first roll I decided to shoot a 36 exposure roll of Kodak Color Plus, this did not end well. My failure to follow instructions led me to accidently spool the film prior to taking any shots. Doh! So as a backup I also purchased a roll of Kodak Gold 200.
Below are the photos that I captured in the first outing with the camera. I shot a few shots of my cats and a local rail museum and the local hot air balloon fest before taking it with me on a work trip to Corpus Christi Texas. I also took all the precautions and ensured that the TSA did not nuke the film in the x-ray machines. 🙂 While on the trip I also shot a roll of Fuji 400, which I have been told is now just Kodak Max 400 rebadged as Fujifilm. No idea if there is any truth to that. That roll is currently off at the developer so it will be posted at a later date.
