Wedding photographer Laura Babb was given a Kodak Brownie, a now iconic vintage box camera, as a gift. Inside was a roll of undeveloped 127 film, which appeared to have been snapped inside the camera.

Jan. 27 is 127 film day to those who geek out on old film cameras (such cameras are first cousins to old carburetors), and so on that day I loaded some hand-rolled Ilford HP5-Plus film cut to 127 size ...