A few weeks ago I took the RB67 around Copenhagen Meat Packing District. It thought it might be interesting to do a test of 3 types of film on the same subjects. It ended up being more difficult than I thought to keep track of which shots I'd taken as I was trying to film and taken shots with my phone at the same time.
I had three different film back (645/120/220) with expired film. I used the following:
- 645 back with Kodak Portra 160 (expired in 2014), 6 years out of date
- 120 back with Fuji RVP 100 (expired in 2002), 18 years out of date
- 645 back with Ilford Delta 100 (expired in 2017), 3 years out of date
I shot the Kodak 160 at 100, the Fuji 100 at 50 and the Ilford 100 at 100. I scanned the film with my Microtek ArtixScan F2, but the lab rolls the film so tightly, it's difficult for the film to stay flat in the scanner tray. Plus no matter how clean and dust free I try to keep the negs, they were a magnet for dust. So I might get them all rescanned professionally. Anyway this is a first attempt at putting something like this together...hope you like them. Next time I don’t think I’ll have as many shutter sounds effects as it’s a little distracting.
Here are a couple of still images in the video, given the fact all the films were expired I was pleasantly surprised they actually came out looking half decent (some better than others)…it’s always a gamble with out of date film.
Thanks for reading and liking the blog…any questions, please feel free to drop a message.
Peter