Thrift store disposable camera

I can’t resist a cheap camera and a cheap camera with film in it is even better. It isn’t unusual to find disposable cameras in a bin at thrift store often for $1 to $2. The results are unpredictable but it is film so what else are you going to do.

One of those what else can you do is to recover the film for use in another camera. Disposable cameras tend to have the film wound out and as you expose each frame it is pulled into the canister. So if you cover the lens with something opaque or perform this in complete darkness. You can advance the film until it is entirely back into the canister and then break the camera open to recover the film. You then need to pull the film out of the canister

( I use an Arista film leader recovery tool). I did this recently with a disposable camera that said made in China with film made in Italy. I found they had used an old Kodak film canister to wind the film onto and then just put a new label over it.