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Vue du lac. Spring 2025.
#expiredfilm

Shall we gather by the red tree?

Olympus Pen FT 38/2.8, f2.8 @ 1/250s
President’s Choice Colour 400 expired

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A small evergreen tree stands apart, its needles turn red and dry. Snow covers the grass in the distance before the land ends at the lake.

Taking A fresh Look At That Expired Redscale Film

Recently, I took a trip to Aveiro to try out the KW Patent Etui 9×12 folding camera with the Rollex 118 film back for Folder Week, a celebration of folding cameras. I also brought along an Agfa Silette Rapid F camera from the 1960s, loaded with expired (c.2002) Konica VX-100 colour film. I wanted to use the Silette for the week’s Lens-Artists Challenge, which this time was ‘Go-To Places’.

To stir things up a bit, the expired film film was redscaled, meaning that it was loaded reversed into the Rapid canister so the image is taken through the backing layer of the film. Since film, especially colour film, loses light sensitivity over time, it needs to be exposed differently to normal film. The ‘rule of thumb’ for shooting expired film is to give it one extra stop of exposure for each decade after the expiry date. But the rule for redscaling film is to give the exposure one more stop of exposure depending on the ISO of the film. So I exposed the 100 ISO film at ISO 6.

Redscaled film generally gives the subject a high contrast orangey/red hue, but in this case, when the images came back from the lab, the colours were really mixed up. I’m not sure whether this was because the laboratory misunderstood that the film was redscaled, and tried to produce colours that are normal for colour film, or whether this was because of the colour shifting of the film. Either way, for a 20+ year-old film I was really happy with the results and submitted the images to the Challenge.

Still, I wondered why the images were so different to ‘normal’ redscale film, and even different to some expired redscale film that I’ve come across. I went back to the original scans from the lab and opened the file in SnapSeed. A little fiddling with curves and whatnot made little difference, but then I went to the white balance option and set the white balance in a white part of the image. Instantly the whole image went ‘bluescale’. Like redscale but shades of blue. So then I set the white balance dropper on a black portion of the image and, voila! Redscale.

https://flic.kr/p/2qZAdZV

I tried this with the other images in the series, and it worked with them, too. Lovely redscaled images from 20-year-old film. I’ve posted the whole roll in an album on my Flickr, if you want to see the rest of the images, and also the original images. I’m not certain if this could be considered true redscale, or if it is cheating, but I really like how these came out and it’s encouraging me to try some more expired film, especially redscaling colour film

https://flic.kr/p/2qZAe1r

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A redscaled view of the metal footbridge in the Parque Infante Dom Pedro in Aveiro.

Watching the birds.

Olympus Pen FT 100/3.5, f5.6 @ 1/250s
President’s Choice Colour 400 expired

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A person in a puffy, white winter coat stands on a covered observation deck at the end of a concrete pier, the water is almost entirely covered by a thin layer of ice on which gulls have gathered.

Simple sky. Spring 2025
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Winter view.

Olympus Pen FT 38/2.8, f5.6 @ 1/60s
President’s Choice Colour 400 expired

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Looking down as snow falls over a park next to Toronto Harbour. The distance is hazy.

Show your failures: #FolderWeek

The Weltax has a body release button with a travel distance of about a centimetre and quite a distinct pressure point. Also the fastest shutter speed is 1/100.
Apparently, I'm not very good at avoiding camera shake under these circumstances.

📷 Welta Weltax
🎞️ Agfapan APX 100

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Black and white photo of a backyard with some garages, seen through a dimly lit tunnel. There is some noticable motion blur from camera movement.

Black and white photo of a fountain in a public square. There is some noticable motion blur from camera movement.

Black and white photo of a public park with trees and a grassy area. There is some noticable motion blur from camera movement.

Abstract architectural geometry. We're approaching porridge levels of grain here, but the stone surface probably didn't help.

📷 Minolta XE-5
🔎 Minolta MC Rokkor 35 mm f/2.8
🎞 Agfa APX 400 (2006, EI 100)

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A very grainy, black-and-white photograph of a zig-zaging outer wall at the Norwegian National Museum. The wall is clad in dark slate tiles, with a top portion in larger tiles of white marble barely visible against the bright, clear sky. The wall creates a pointy up-and-down geometric shape against the sky, almost like a caricature drawing of a simple mountain range.

How close can you get to the fox with a point and shoot film camera ?
Pretty close.
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Abstract stripes from first exposure on film roll, accidental Rothko
Spring 2025
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Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa–Sonoma county line, California, after a phylloxera infestation forced vineyards to be cleared from the hill years prior. He used the Mamiya RZ67 camera and Fujifilm's Velvia film.

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I am considering to reactivate my analogue gear including processing B&W film. In order to try out if this still sparks joy, I used several roles of Tri-X and one role of Delta 3200 that have been lying around for over 20 years. The Delta film even had some images that had been exposed over 20 years ago on it! Processing was done in old Ilford Microphen in an (these days) unusual 600 ml package.

Result:
* I still like film photography a lot!
* I need better light proofing of the place where I process films!
* It is never(?) to late to develop the latent image in exposed film.

📷 Pentax LX
🎞 20 years expired Kodak Tri-X @ 100

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#Berlin #Germany #ExpiredFilm

A black and white photograph of a live preserver on a bridge over a canal. The canal including a ship on it is out of focus. At the bottom one can see the effect of a light leak during processing of the film.

Color photograph of film roles, film canisters and packaging, including:
* Kodak Tri-X package with expiry date 12/2001
* Kodak Tri-X and Ilford Delta 3200 canisters
* a self-role spool originally labeled T-MAX 100 but overwritten with Tri-X

A color photograph of a sink with two packages of dry photo chemicals on it: Ilford Microphen and Adox Adofix P II.

Is i Trondjord! https://buff.ly/izc7fos #frozenseascape #efke #rodinal #trondjord #largeformat #hullkamera #pinhole #woodencamera #cameramaker #homemadecamera #efke100 #expiredfilm

🍁2023
📷 Pentax ES II + Industar 50-2 f3.5/50mm
🎞️ Konica Centuria 200 (expired 2007)

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The image features a tall brick tower with a distinctive red conical roof, set against a clear blue sky with a few scattered clouds. The tower has a square base with arched windows on the upper level, and a large arched entrance at the ground level. In front of the tower, there is a statue of a person on a pedestal, surrounded by a weeping willow tree. The area around the tower is a park-like setting with people walking and sitting, and other buildings visible in the background. The overall scene is well-lit, suggesting it is a sunny day.

Show your failures: #FolderWeek

I'm older than auto focus but I'm younger than through the lens viewfinders with split prism focusing screens.
So, shooting with a mechanical viewfinder, I tend to forget to focus or fail to estimate the distance correctly.

📷 Welta Weltax
🎞️ Agfapan APX 100

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Black and white out-of-focus photo of a fountain in a park-like environment.

Black and white out-of-focus photo of the Stadthalle in Mülheim an der Ruhr

Black and white out-of-focus photo of a street with residential buildings and a gambling hall.

Black and white out-of-focus photo of a stone monument nestled among tall trees and dense foliage. The monument stands at the edge of a field of grass.

Some kind of #Doorsday. I've no idea what it leads to.

📷 Minolta XE-5
🔎 Minolta MD 35–70 mm f/3.5 macro
🎞 Agfa APX 400 (2006, EI 125)

#AnalogPhotography #ExpiredFilm #BlackAndWhitePhotography