What do you do with lots of expired film?

[kuzano]

Ah college days...

Ah college days...

When I was a college student I used lots of expired Kodak slide film from the General Services Administration, which had most likely been stored without refrigeration in an army warehouse, never had a problem with the color, looked normal enough for government work.

Cube steaks, ketchup on bread, later Top Ramen and expired film...

BTDT! Can relate.

 

[Ronald_H]

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When I want color shift, I bake my film in an oven set at 250 to 275, for six hours, even if I just got it from Fujifilm or whoever. That's a guaranteed recipe for color shift and other anomalous processing behavior.

So again, if you want weird.. bake it.

That's one of the craziest things I heard in a long time, but in a good way 😀

As a rule I try to avoid color shifts, but even if they happen, there is absolutely massive scope for correction in PP.

Yesterday I dug up some scans from the most expired roll I have ever used. 19 years expired Kodak Tri-X 400, 'stored' in a desk drawer all this time. I shot at box speed and had it developed at a lab (this is from before I started doing it myself). Sure, it has severe fog and is underexposed, but the shot made it to the website of the organizig artist. Had I known, I have no doubt that with some extra development, results would have been totally acceptable.


Stevie Ann - 2007 by Ronald_H, on Flickr

 

[taskoni]

I would shoot it or give it to "taskoni" as a present 😛

Regards,

Boris

 

[GaryLH]

If u have had it in the freezer, don't worry about it being out of date. I have used film as old as 12 years w/o any problem at have been stored in a freezer.

Gary

 

[Peter de Waal]

I recently bought 6x Leica IXMOO cassettes & cases loaded with Ilford FP3 B+W emulsion for $10 each!

To the best of my knowledge Ilford FP3 went out of production around 1969, about three years before I took up photography.

I understand FP3 was 160 ASA when produced, so I was thought I might try a roll at EI 25 and see what happens. How do I then go about developing such stuff?

I would welcome advice from anybody who has attempted to use truly ancient film.

 

[Ronald_H]

I recently bought 6x Leica IXMOO cassettes & cases loaded with Ilford FP3 B+W emulsion for $10 each!

To the best of my knowledge Ilford FP3 went out of production around 1969, about three years before I took up photography.

I understand FP3 was 160 ASA when produced, so I was thought I might try a roll at EI 25 and see what happens. How do I then go about developing such stuff?

I would welcome advice from anybody who has attempted to use truly ancient film.

The last FP3 was ISO125 according to wikipedia. Exposing @ISO25 and develop generously (= a bit longer than default) in HC-110 is what I would do. Others will be able to give more specific advice.

 

[grapejohnson]

The last FP3 was ISO125 according to wikipedia. Exposing @ISO25 and develop generously (= a bit longer than default) in HC-110 is what I would do. Others will be able to give more specific advice.

i developed the plus-x of similar vintage that i recently shot for an extra 4 or 6 minutes in d-76 and got useable results. i shot it at 400 (i think, it was a point and shoot so it was auto-iso) and developed for about 1000. i tried overexposing tri-x from the same time period, at ISO 50 i believe, and developed it for 50, but it was so dense, i should have developed for 400.

 

[valdas]

What do I do with lots of expired film?

I keep on buying it...

 

[robert blu]

I just realized that the film (Fuji FP-3000B) I used for the Worldwide Pinhole Day were expired on 2011-10. Pictures are in the thread : http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=132182
robert

 

[Highway 61]

I just (normally, without any change to the usual developing time) developed some Fuji ACROS rolls shot with my Rolleiflex 3.5F in Italy last week.

Those were 2004/03 expired and never got frozen or even stored in the fridge door whatsoever.

Well the results are just fabulous.

 

[Alpsman]

When I started to develope my BW-Films by myself, I had about 25 Rolls BW-Film expired about 10 years, from ISO 100 to 3200, 135 & 120. I used them to train developing to get handy with the process.
The ISO 100 Films worked really fine without an y noticeable shade of grey.
The 400 had a litte grey shade.
The 3200 had a very dark grey shade.

A slidefilm, 400 ISO, expired about 8 years had a noticeable bluecast, but it was not developed by myself.
All films were not stored in the freezer, at least not all the time.