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My $12 thrift store Yashica finally paid off...
I grabbed a beat up Yashica Mat 124G from a church rummage sale last spring for $12, thought it was a paperweight because the shutter was stuck. After three months of gentle cleaning and some YouTube tutorials, I got it working and shot my first roll of Portra 400 last weekend - the results were honestly better than my digital stuff. Any of you guys ever resurrected a camera everyone else wrote off?
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abby_palmer5d ago
Hate to be that guy but Portra 400 is usually color negative film, not black and white. Still a sweet find for 12 bucks though.
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james925d ago
Oh man, I actually just read something about that the other day. There's a weird urban legend online that Portra 400 can give black and white results if you process it in certain chemicals, but that's not really true. Some folks were saying you can cross process it to get a desaturated look, but it's still color film at its core. Either way, twelve bucks is a steal for any kind of film these days.
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