I am always looking on Ebay for any film bargains even though I have way more film than I actually need already and came across a few rolls of Kodak Ultra 400 that had expired back in 2005.
The seller said it had been cold stored and as I didn’t have any of this stock I took a punt.
I loaded up my Nikon FE2 & 35mm f2.5 and we popped down to the beach at Porthcawl, the weather started quite bright but by the time I was half way through the roll the clouds darkened which gave me two different looks to the images.
Once I started scanning the roll I was taken aback with how the images looked, pretty normal colours while shooting in the partial sunshine but when it clouded over the images had quite a pronounced colour shift which for me were the better looking frames if I am honest.
Overall I was very happy with how many keepers that I managed to get from this roll.
I even like the pronounced grain in the funkier one’s too.
I am going to print out a couple at quite a decent size as I think the grain/colour will pop more when viewed larger.
Thanks for looking ….
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