Tompkins Park at 17th Ave and 8th St SW Calgary

Last Saturday, April 8th I took a couple of rolls of expired Kodak Vericolor 120 film re-spooled on 620 film spools and went for a walk down to Tompkins park to see what was going on.

I shot the film in a 1933 Kodak Jiffy 6-20 camera that is becoming a favourite of mine to shoot with. The shutter speed is unknown except that it's probably around 1/50th of a second and the default aperture is F8. There are two other settings, F11 and F16 set by pulling a lever below the bellows of the camera.

The expired Vericolor film has a box speed of 160 ASA, but since it expired in 1985 or so the ASA is probably more like 80 or so. Perfect for a larger aperture and slow shutter speed! I made these photographs as practice to better learn the characteristics of this wonderful old classic camera.

Below are the results of my little practice session, no edits other than some minor cropping and dust removal, the color is as it came out of the camera.

Enjoy!