Expired film...a question

[gm13]

This is from a roll of 17yr old Ektar 1000. Most of the expired film I have is high speed and was wondering if cyan is the color most resilient to the passage of time or if this could be a development issue. Anyone know if this is typical and if so, is it across the board for all films that cyan predominates or just high speed?
Thanks for any input.

(The whole roll was this color)

 

[Chris101]

Looks pretty typical for color film that is that old. With stuff that is less degraded, I can sometimes use an orange filter to bring the colors closer to normal, but this looks like it's almost gone. 17 years is a long time for a color emulsion, especially a high speed one.

I had previously seen this with some 8 year old Ektachrome 400.

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

Wet print that on B&W high contrast paper.

Cheers,

Juan

 

[Dwig]

... wondering if cyan is the color most resilient to the passage of time ...

Of course not. One, Ektar is a color negative film so the cyan seen in the new print is the result of excessive red in the old negative. Two, color films, both neg and positive, use red, green, and blue dyes; there are no cyan dyes so there can be no cyan to outlive its brethern.

 

[jvan01]

I also recently acquired a roll of Ektar 1000 that expired in 1994. I was wondering how best to expose the roll. GM13, did you expose your roll at box speed or slower?

 

[Pirate]

I just developed an old roll of XP1 and the whole roll came out Green! It was 120. The number markings from the paper back had bled onto the film, so along with pictures of the Eiffel Tower, I had little spots with the frame number. I know it was expired but I don't know the original date.

 

[andrealed]

I think XP1 is supposed to be green.