Collecting

Some interesting photos taken in Australia by an amateur photographer in the year 1959.

Some photos from Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum taken on Orwo colour slide film.

A post featuring a video clip, taken on VHS-C videotape at the Crich Tramway museum in about 1998.

This week I bought a small collection of Kodachrome red border colour slides, which were all taken in the early 1950s

This post features some photographs I’ve found in my collection of colour slides over the last few months which have a subject in common – macro.

This post covers the reasons I started collecting colour slides and how I store and index them.

A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to pick up some medium format colour slides showing views around Europe which had been taken in the 1970s and 1980s. 

A post featuring some medium format photos, some of which seem to be professionally staged advertising shots.

Since I started the found film site a year or so ago, I’ve discovered a new interest as I’ve scanned and processed the old images which I post every day. What I’ve found is a real interest in trying to discover the location of the picture, trying to identify different objects in the picture and…

This week I found my best find yet for Found-Film – a set of medium format, colour slides in very good condition, which were taken sometime between 1958 and 1962.

This week I bought a fantastic set of Kodachrome slides taken in Switzerland in the early 1960s which came in one of the worst condition boxes I’ve ever seen.

Some photos featuring a group of people demonstrating different forms of dancing