Post Your oldest Expired Film Experiments

This is Verichrome Pan expired in 1982. 127 format (Baby Rolleiflex). I bought a bunch of rolls from this batch but I also have one from 1969; maybe I'll try that one sometime. This was in Rodinal 1:50.



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I was given a bunch of expired film, sometimes I wish I hadn't received it. The heartbreak isn't worth it, but sometimes you are lucky. All of this film was from the 2002 to 2008 period and was never refrigerated. The black and white has been good: Kodak, Fuji, and Ilford. The color is another story, the Fuji color which I very much like is useless. The Kodak fairs better but the slower the film the better. Here is 2003 Ektachrome 200 exposed normally (the next roll will give an extra half stop):

Kodak EktaChrome expired 2003 by John Carter, on Flickr

From this roll of Portra 160 only a few were good, don't mind the crazy lens just look at the color:

Kodak Portra 160 VC expired by John Carter, on Flickr

A different roll of Portra 160:

Kodak Portra 160 very expired by John Carter, on Flickr

I hope some of this scrambled insight will help others.
 
Verichrome Pan expired in 1965, in my Ricohmatic 44. I shot it about ASA 25, but looking back I probably should have lowered that even more. The shadow areas are particularly mottled. I have no idea how this was stored for the last 55-or-so years. Rodinal 1:50 standard development.

Despite the old cars, this was shot yesterday.

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Kodak 70mm Surveillance Test ADOX Borax MQ by Nokton48, on Flickr

1980 Kodak Plus-X Aerographic 2402 70mm film, processed in straight ADOX Borax. I like this film and have a few rolls in the deep freeze.
Hasselblad 500C/M, 60mm F3.5 T* Zeiss Distagon, Hasselblad A70 film magazine. The Woods behind my house.


70mm Hassy WL Surveiilance D76 by Nokton48, on Flickr

On the right, 1982 Kodak 70mm Surveillance film, processed in ADOX Borax Developer. I bought twenty rolls of this film from a military surplus guy, for thirty dollars each. I love this film and I think it seems a lot like old Tri-X! This photo was shot at EI 400 and bracketed, and yes, this film is still EI 400 in speed.

On the left, the Kodak Plus-X Aerographic 2402, processed in ADOX Borax.
 
Kodak Super-XX Panchromatic 6.5 x 9 sheet film, expired seven months before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

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Expired May 1941, shot at ISO 25 winter of 2018, stand processed in Rodinal (IIRC).

Best,
-Tim
 
As found in a Kodak Brownie 127 at my In-Laws when they move farms twenty-odd years ago. And it had a film in it!

We worked out it would've been a present of one of the Bros-in-Law and dates back to 1964.

I removed the film twenty years ago, wrapped it in tinfoil, and duly forgot about it. A few weeks ago I found it and developed it. And it came out! Nothing very exciting, though, but no doubt meaningful at the time.

I used stand-development, Ilfotec DD-X 1:9 for 45 mins, then stopped and fixed for 10 mins: 20°C. Negs photographed with Sony RX100 Mk: II.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/russell_w_b/43795093262/in/album-72157699435142284/
 
Bought three rolls of "PicPac" to get the 127 spools and paper. No processing info, ASA/ISO, or anything else, except "Made In Italy." Expired 1975. I processed it as old Ferrania P30, but really just guessed a lot and pumped up the contrast a bunch. I didn't expect much except working spools and paper, but I got a few decent images.
PicPac2 by Daniel Ingram, on Flickr
 
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