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Attila
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 57865 Location: Hungary
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Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:46 pm Post subject: Long time ago expired film |
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Attila wrote:
I bought ten roll B&W film they are expired in 1979 from 25 ASA to 200 ASA ORWO and Forte made ones. I bought them for practice how new camera loading works , but I am curious about their performance. I did try once long expired B&W result was garbage no contrast just gray everywhere. Any experience ? _________________ -------------------------------
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rawhead
Joined: 09 Feb 2009 Posts: 1525 Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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rawhead wrote:
I guess depends largely on how it was stored. E.g., here's a shot from a buddy of mine. Expired 1978
Untitled by Jonathan Hillhouse, on Flickr _________________ Sony α7R, Pentax 67II, Kiev-60, Hasselblad 203FE, 903SWC, Graflex Norita 66, Mamiya M645 1000s, Burke & James 8x10, Graflex Pacemaker Speed Graphic (4x5 and 3x4), Century Graphic (2x3), R.B. Graflex Seried D, Rolleiflex SL66E, Rolleiflex 2.8C Xenotar, Mamiya C330f, a few M42, six P6, three OM, four Hasselblad, two Pentax 67, two Mamiya 645, one Noritar, and a sprinkle of EF. Oh, and an Aero Ektar and Leica Noctilux |
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Attila
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 57865 Location: Hungary
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:28 am Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
Wow! So I will give it a try again. _________________ -------------------------------
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cooltouch
Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 9096 Location: Houston, Texas
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:52 am Post subject: |
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cooltouch wrote:
I have kept a bunch of rolls of Kodak Plus-X Pan in the freezer ever since I bought them in about 1990. Their expiration was 1983, and the only reason why I bought them was the guy promised me that they had been frozen since expiration. For no particularly good reason, I've kept them frozen and haven't used them ever since I bought them until last year, at which time I began exposing a few rolls. Much to my surprise, they were just fine. I developed them myself using D76 developer and used the recommended developing times that were included on the data sheets that came with each roll. The only effect from aging I've noticed is the film has a rather pronounced curl, or perhaps "cupping" would be a more accurate term, which may lead to a somewhat soft scan unless the film is flattened in some fashion first. Despite this cupping, scans with my Epson 4990 have shown good results. Here are a couple of samples.
Canon F-1, Canon FD 35-105mm f/3.5, Yashica Pro 50-DX flash
Canon FTbn, Canon FL 55mm f/1.2
So if the film has been stored frozen, I would say that it should be good. But if it hasn't? Well, all bets are off in that case. _________________ Michael
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Excalibur
Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5017 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Excalibur wrote:
My 35mm HP5 and FP4 from 1986, stored at room temperature was OK when used this year, also 120 FP4 from 1990 is OK. _________________ Canon A1, AV1, T70 & T90, EOS 300 and EOS300v, Chinon CE and CP-7M. Contax 139, Fuji STX-2, Konica Autoreflex TC, FS-1, FT-1, Minolta X-700, X-300, XD-11, SRT101b, Nikon EM, FM, F4, F90X, Olympus OM2, Pentax S3, Spotmatic, Pentax ME super, Praktica TL 5B, & BC1, , Ricoh KR10super, Yashica T5D, Bronica Etrs, Mamiya RB67 pro AND drum roll:- a Sony Nex 3
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berraneck
Joined: 24 May 2009 Posts: 972 Location: prague, czech republic
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 11:12 am Post subject: |
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berraneck wrote:
BW films are often still good when stored at cold place or frozen. Problems are with colour films, especially slides - i have bought some Kodak E100 slides expired in 1992, which aren´t good at all for general photography. On the other side, they´re very recommendable for cross-processing when shooting lomo-style:) _________________ equipment doesn´t count, good photographs do |
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Attila
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 57865 Location: Hungary
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 11:51 am Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
Excalibur wrote: |
My 35mm HP5 and FP4 from 1986, stored at room temperature was OK when used this year, also 120 FP4 from 1990 is OK. |
So I have a big hope now , thanks! _________________ -------------------------------
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Xpres
Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Posts: 964 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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Xpres wrote:
There might be some loss in speed after 30 years. I tried a roll of HP3 that expired in 1964 but it had lost about 3 stops and and was very foggy. Still got some images though. _________________ Film... and sometimes SD14, 5D2 and some other suff! |
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Attila
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 57865 Location: Hungary
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
Mine previous try was foggy too, let we see this one. _________________ -------------------------------
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