I was lucky enough to be given a batch of expired slide film from a friend and fellow photographer a few weeks ago.
I have already tried some without any problems even though there was no guarantee on how the rolls had been previously stored.
Just as a precaution I bracketed this roll due to the overly bright sunshine that we managed in November.
I shot the roll with my Pentax Program A and Tokina SD 28-70 Macro
It was developed the roll in the Tetenal E6 kit and scanned on the Epson v500.
I was glad that I did bracket as the dynamic range was very small even by slide standards and the fact that it was expired.
I was happy with the results that were at the optimal exposure 🙂
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I only just realised while backing up my Lightroom catalogs that I had forgotten to post this blog which should have been posted before the Ektachrome 2 parter.
I have quite a few different slide stocks stored in my fridge and the day I shot this we had just had a huge downpour and I was not really sure whether or not the rain would come back so I loaded up some Sensia 400 rated at 320 iso into my Olympus OM10 for a change as I haven’t used this camera for years, I usually use either the OM2s or OM1n when I want to go down the Olympus route.
Lucky for me the rain held off for a while and the sun peaked out to give a nice warm look to the Sensia.
The first thing that was apparent was how much more Red the images were compared to the 120, both films were obviously expired the 120 was 2012 and this roll was 2009.
That said I don’t think it harmed the look of the images in fact I quite like the overall Red feel.
Overall I was very happy with both rolls and I am really looking forward to getting my hands on the new re-issued version as soon as it comes out.
For a change usually when I get a nice long weekend off be it summer or winter I always seem to pick the days with rubbish weather but luckily for me last weekend I got a good one.
When shooting in bright sunlight the colours really pop really enhancing the autumn colours I can’t wait to get my hands on the “New” Ektachrome when it eventually appears.
I love trying new/old film stocks, usually its some old expired stuff I find on eBay but for a change I picked up a 3 roll box of Lomography Colour Negative 400 35mm last week and was interested in seeing what the film was like compared to some of my favorite films like Portra 400 vc or Fuji Reala.
The brighter the light the more saturation I seemed to get which was great.
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.
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