Expired Film Day 2017

Can it really be almost a year since my last post? 'Bad Andy!'

Anyway…

"Expired Film Day celebrates the joys of using film whose Use-By date has (preferably long-since) passed. One of the particular pleasures of being a film-using photographer in these modern times is the abundance of expired-but-still-probably-pretty-good film on the market, found in grandparents’ attics or at thrift stores, or sourced from the freezers of pros who’ve gone digital.

Expired film can be unpredictable: if you know how it was stored, it might be easy to compensate for its age, if that’s even necessary. If you don’t, your results could range from dark, to flat, to color-shifted and beyond. Many people today say the potential unpredictability of using film is part of what draws them to it over digital; using expired film takes the existing unpredictability of using film and compounds it."

The above is lifted from the 'Expired Film Day' website, explaining the idea far better than I can…

Expired Film Day is tomorrow, March 15th, and I'll being joining in by using up some of this…

In these…

So that's some Ilford Pan F+ dated 2007, a couple of rolls of Fujicolor SuperG Plus 200 dated 1997 and some Kodak Gold 100 dated 1996!

Add one classic camera (Olympus Trip 35 - a charity shop find) and one unloved runt of the litter (Nikon FG-20 + 50mm Series E lens) and I'm all set.

Wish me luck!

Kodak 66 Model II - The results (finally)

Way back in August last year I spent a day in London and took this little beauty along with me…

I shot a roll of Ilford XP2 with it and sent the film off to UK Film Lab for processing and scanning…

The scans were done in double quick time but I first misplaced and then forgot about them until a couple of days ago when they turned up on a memory stick at the back of my desk drawer.

While I did make notes regarding exposure settings I've managed to misplace those too but I do remember sticking to a shutter speed of 1/200 second for every shot.

I'll admit to being pleasantly surprised by the results, with such a simple viewfinder composition is a bit hit and miss but the scans haven't needed too much straightening up. Overall image quality isn't all that bad, certainly good enough for snap shots which is what the camera was designed for after all…

Oops!

Remember me mentioning recently that I'd be taking photos at an album launch in Derby with my Nikon F3/85mm f2 combo and some Neopan 1600?

It didn't go well…

If I'm honest I wasn't expecting great things, I knew I was risking serious underexposure even with pushing Neopan one stop.

Lesson learned eh?

Nightwires, Nikon F3, Neopan…

Off to an album launch party at The Tap in Derby tonight celebrating the release of The Nightwires second album "Life of Sound" and as usual I'm planning to take a few photos… with this setup…

Nikon F3 HP, Nikkor 85mm f2 AIS lens and some (out of date) Fuji Neopan 1600 film…

Wish me luck!