Great fun today: My 20 yr old granddaughter has taken an interest in photography. She has a modern DSLR, but also an old Pentax K1000 with which she had exposed two 36-exposure B/W...

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

My 20 yr old granddaughter has taken an interest in photography. She has a modern DSLR, but also an old Pentax K1000 with which she had exposed two 36-exposure B/W rolls. We went into my darkroom today, cleared the cobwebs, and developed the two rolls. I forgot how hard it is to roll a 36 exposure onto a stainless reel, I think that's partly why I went to 120 film years ago. Anyway, it was great way to spend a few hours with my granddaughter. Now I'm going to try to scan them.

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

That is a gift she will never forget. Have fun and enjoy your photography journey together.

g8rfan1942 Loc: Ormond Beach Fl

jackm1943 wrote:

My 20 yr old granddaughter has taken an interest in photography. She has a modern DSLR, but also an old Pentax K1000 with which she had exposed two 36-exposure B/W rolls. We went into my darkroom today, cleared the cobwebs, and developed the two rolls. I forgot how hard it is to roll a 36 exposure onto a stainless reel, I think that's partly why I went to 120 film years ago. Anyway, it was great way to spend a few hours with my granddaughter. Now I'm going to try to scan them.

Sounds like a great way to bond with your granddaughter. Next you need to take her on a photo "safari" and encourage her photographic endeavors.

Marionsho Loc: Kansas

jackm1943 wrote:

My 20 yr old granddaughter has taken an interest in photography. She has a modern DSLR, but also an old Pentax K1000 with which she had exposed two 36-exposure B/W rolls. We went into my darkroom today, cleared the cobwebs, and developed the two rolls. I forgot how hard it is to roll a 36 exposure onto a stainless reel, I think that's partly why I went to 120 film years ago. Anyway, it was great way to spend a few hours with my granddaughter. Now I'm going to try to scan them.

Sounds like fun. I can relate to winding the undeveloped film onto a spool. I was in the college darkroom, years ago, and the janitor wanted in. I asked him to wait, but he got impatient and walked in. When I told the teacher, he said "you could have just stuck it in the can and screwed the lid on. Then just would it up later"
Duh, wished I thought of that.
Marion

Photocraig

Marionsho wrote:

Sounds like fun. I can relate to winding the undeveloped film onto a spool. I was in the college darkroom, years ago, and the janitor wanted in. I asked him to wait, but he got impatient and walked in. When I told the teacher, he said "you could have just stuck it in the can and screwed the lid on. Then just would it up later"
Duh, wished I thought of that.
Marion

Yeah, and how do you think tha professor knew that. And Ifrared is worse since there can be NO safelight, either even loading and unloading the camera.Sorry you lost all those A++ exposures.

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

jdubu wrote:

That is a gift she will never forget. Have fun and enjoy your photography journey together.

Thanks jdubu. If she gets more serious, I plan to give her my Rolleiflex 2.8 and my Wisner 4x5.

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

g8rfan1942 wrote:

Sounds like a great way to bond with your granddaughter. Next you need to take her on a photo "safari" and encourage her photographic endeavors.

Thanks g8rfan. She lives in Oregon, it's been 30 yrs since I've been there. I hope to get out there soon and go photographing with her.

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

Marionsho wrote:

Sounds like fun. I can relate to winding the undeveloped film onto a spool. I was in the college darkroom, years ago, and the janitor wanted in. I asked him to wait, but he got impatient and walked in. When I told the teacher, he said "you could have just stuck it in the can and screwed the lid on. Then just would it up later"
Duh, wished I thought of that.
Marion

We had to do that actually. She started out trying to roll the film onto one of those plastic reels but it would get stuck after about 2/3 of the film was loaded. So, we put the film into a can and got the stainless reels out instead.

grandmadeb Loc: illinois, usa

Hi jack, what fun for you. my daughters very first camera for her photography class in junior college was a K1000. totally manual. I bet you had so much fun. my granddaughters haven't really shown any interest in photography yet, although the 2 oldests have point and shoots. how were the shots you exposed. deb

lone ranger Loc: Port Saint Lucie, Florida

thats wonderful, you are creating wonderful memories, for the both of you....

jackm1943 wrote:

My 20 yr old granddaughter has taken an interest in photography. She has a modern DSLR, but also an old Pentax K1000 with which she had exposed two 36-exposure B/W rolls. We went into my darkroom today, cleared the cobwebs, and developed the two rolls. I forgot how hard it is to roll a 36 exposure onto a stainless reel, I think that's partly why I went to 120 film years ago. Anyway, it was great way to spend a few hours with my granddaughter. Now I'm going to try to scan them.

zigipha Loc: north nj

jdubu wrote:

That is a gift she will never forget. Have fun and enjoy your photography journey together.

Re "gift they will never forget" re my sons - i used to do stuff with them thinking "ah they will remember this"..20 years later.."remember when we did this" "no" "how about that" "no"...lol

RichardSM Loc: Back in Texas

I prefer the Kodak plastic apron, can
For 35mm film never ever had a stall when loading for development I had 5 or 6 of these. Loved them!

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

jackm1943 wrote:

My 20 yr old granddaughter has taken an interest in photography. She has a modern DSLR, but also an old Pentax K1000 with which she had exposed two 36-exposure B/W rolls. We went into my darkroom today, cleared the cobwebs, and developed the two rolls. I forgot how hard it is to roll a 36 exposure onto a stainless reel, I think that's partly why I went to 120 film years ago. Anyway, it was great way to spend a few hours with my granddaughter. Now I'm going to try to scan them.

That's weird, I always had more trouble loading 120 film on a reel than 35mm.

jimmya Loc: Phoenix

jackm1943 wrote:

My 20 yr old granddaughter has taken an interest in photography. She has a modern DSLR, but also an old Pentax K1000 with which she had exposed two 36-exposure B/W rolls. We went into my darkroom today, cleared the cobwebs, and developed the two rolls. I forgot how hard it is to roll a 36 exposure onto a stainless reel, I think that's partly why I went to 120 film years ago. Anyway, it was great way to spend a few hours with my granddaughter. Now I'm going to try to scan them.

What a neat story. You'll have many years with her I'm sure and oh so many memories.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Sounds like a great way to spend an afternoon!!

Don