A Whole Roll of Expired Kodak Ektachrome 160T Slide Film (42 Years expired)
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In September 2020 I bought a batch of long-expired medium format films on eBay. The batch included 14 rolls of B&W, Color, and Slide Film. I paid 45 €, so around 3.2 € per roll. This batch also included the roll of HP4 I showed you a while back.
One roll I was very curious to see the results was this roll of Kodak Ektachrome 160T. This particular roll expired in 1979 (42 years ago)! I decided to shoot this special roll at night in Heidelberg.
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Since I heard a lot of bad things about expired Slide Film I honestly expected to get a blank roll back from the lab... BUT luckily this wasn't the case!
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All the frames came out really nice! They all have this very special faded and desaturated look. Especially the blacks are basically completely washed out. I like this special look in combination with the evening mood.
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All the shots were taken with my Rolleicord V 6x6 TLR Camera.
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Since I wasn't really sure about how to meter, I tried a few things out to make sure to get at least one decent frame. After seeing the results, this was quite a waste of film, since all of the exposures came out nicely and you can't really see a big difference.
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Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed the results as much as I did!
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