Zenit 12 XP or other Vintage Cameras: Taking the Film Out.

Long story short, I have an old Zenit 12 XP camera, and ChibiChibiUsagi was having trouble taking the film out of it, so I decided to make a video out of it, instead of explaining it with text. Was fun.

I'm new to the whole making videos thing, so be gentile (like thats gonna happen). Also, if anyone knows of any free editing software that will make this easier, please leave a comment. And does it have to take an hour to load a video this short? My camera shoots .avi format. Is there some pre-formatting I can do to make the loading time shorter?

And finally: as always, feel free to discuss any conspiracy theories below.

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Howto & Style

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• Zenit 12 XP
• vintage camera
• howto
• how to
• software
• removing film

[FlipingMoney]

How much is that thing worth i have one and i dont know what to price it

[Spanky00Cheeks]

@FlipingMoney

No idea how much it's worth. another person commented that they bought one, you can ask him.

[lunargirlxx]

thank you for the video, very helpful, but unfortunately, my film got stuck inside the camera, it happened while rewinding. i will have to go to a photo studio and ask them to get it out in dark room. also if anyone has any idea why would a film stuck while doing everything as it says, let me know. i do not want this to happen again =)

[Spanky00Cheeks]

@lunargirlxx

I hope the people at the studio gave you good advice how not to get it stuck. I can't guess what went wrong or what fell off of what to give you real advice. :(

Experiment with a developed or junked film, to see how the mechanism works, and what could go wrong.

btw,.. Hrvatska!

[ChibiChibiUsagi]

Thank you so much!

As I was searching for the solution I found a lot of other people had trouble figuring it out as well.

You explained it very well so feel confident if you'll make more how to-videos in the future. ^^

[heremitsoldier]

Nice. I just boreowed this same camera from a friend and tomorrow i'm going to try some shots.

[xdigitalfreedom]

Just bought this camera on Ebay! I only have owned one working slr film camera so I've decided for this to be my second.. very excited.

[otumminelli]

@Spanky00Cheeks haha that´s fine, well yes i guess it depends on our needs, that´s truth. I´m from Costa Rica, Central America, it would explain my accent. Take care!

[lunargirlxx]

@Spanky00Cheeks hahaha wow I am impressed with ''Hrvatska''! How do you know it?

Also people at the studio didn't give me any advice why it happened... I'll have to figure out for myself! Thank you for reply!

[Spanky00Cheeks]

@otumminelli

I see where you are coming from. I don't do any serious photography. For me, it's more important that I can see how the picture looks before it's developed, and not to have to worry about changing films.

The only thing close to serious photography that I do is machine vision and vision based control systems, which require digital images :D

This solid hunk of finely crafted steel, glass, and leather is sort of nostalgic and sentimental, and I'm no old-man, haha.

Take care!

[otumminelli]

@Spanky00Cheeks hello, guys I own this camera and i still use it. The photographs it takes are amazing... digital cameras dont´t have the quality, beauty and fidelity it achieves,,, you will probably need to waste a bunch of money to get a similar quality digital camera... i´m a 29 years-old guy, I´m not a nostalgic old-man.... I hate the artificiality look of the digital cameras... i´m not sure new technology is always better than older...

[eilieo]

yeah thank you, i just got this new old Zenit and didnt have a clue...so i here i go looking for more vids! good start :)