Badinerie

So I got this roll as part of a bundle of much more interesting films (various rolls of expired Ektachrome E100G, E100VS, E200, EPP, some Fuji T64, Sensia and Reala, a few Konica Pro 160, etc.) . I must say I wasn't really excited about it. First of all, Fuji Super HQ is the cheap consumer-grade emulsion that came before Superia. It didn't have the fourth layer of dye and was meant to be sold in drugstores to amateurs on vacation, not to be stored for years in a freezer. Secondly, it came alone without a cardboard box so I had no idea of its expiration date. Without the expiration date, I had no clue about how to compensate for its ineluctable loss of sensitivity. Therefore I investigated. I noticed the Fujifilm logo. It was the old one, so it must have been produced before 2006. Then I compared with the expiration dates of the other films I got, I averaged them and jumped to the conclusion that it should have expired around 2004/2005. That's 13/14 years. According to the famous rule of thumb for expired film, that makes 1 stop and ⅓ of compensation, which gave me EI 80 from a box speed of 200. However, since it's consumer color negative film (ie: with more latitude than pro film), it's safe to add another third of a stop just to be sure, which makes it 64. The whole roll came out perfectly exposed, without fog and with a very smooth grain structure. Colors are supposed to be less natural than with Superia 200 but in my broad daylight snapshots, it looks very good. Not so much with artificial light (mushy shadows and greenish cast)

Fotograf:
flamingoid
Hochgeladen:
2018-08-25
Tags:
expired
Kamera:
Konica C35 FD
Film:
Fujicolor Super HQ 200
Objektiv:
Hexanon 38mm f/1.8
Stadt:
Bangkok
Land/Region:
Thailand
Albums:
Odessey and Oracle
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