ok, today's story. two days back, I loaded a roll of neopan ss into the nikon fm2n with the intent to test 28mm lens on black and white. I took just few shots and decided to do a "whole roll" series with continuous shooting on canon A2e and wanted to reload the same roll onto the latter camera. However, one of our Czech friends here had a yard sale this morning and she had some photo items for sell. I picked plastic bag full of films. There were some kodaks, some unknown rebranded films of various speeds (100-400), all in color. As expected, they all were outdated. Have to say that a lot! But anyway, I gave her 5 bucks for like 15 rolls of film, so it was just worth to do it. I wanted to try film of that age. As a result, I decided to change my plans and loaded a Kodak gold 100 with expiration of 5/1999. Shot the roll with some help from my "kocur". And results?
have to say, pretty good. Don't have any feeling that the film would perform significantly worse than new. On the other side, I realized what are the problems of outdated film when I got it from the lab. First of all, it bends along its longitudinal axis making it difficult to scan. It is right now between pages of large book with hope it will stay flat. We'll see tomorrow. The second big problem is that it is prone to catch dust particles. It can be caused either by changed properties of the film with time or just simply by the old emulsion produced in 90'. I don't know but I spent much more time with cleaning the film before scanning than usual (which is pretty boring, especially if the dust is still coming back again and again).
special note for Jakub. I changed labs and now, I'm going back to that one on Tchoupitoulas where I started to go when we lived in our first place here in NOLA. And guess what? No red stripes - anywhere. Moreover, those people there still remember me which is nice. On the dark side, the lady who did the job today scratched the film more than usual and I had to retouch the scans (and it sucks).
ok, that's the story. BTW, all shot with sigma 24/2.8
ok, not the whole roll got wasted on "kocur". we switched and here are some more "funny" shots :-)
that's all folks, yadidadida.
