With more and more new film stocks becoming available, and the steep prices that some are charging for expired stocks on eBay, why on earth would anyone want to shoot expired films when fresh is cheaper, more dependable and simply better all round? 1 Expired Film actually *is* cheaper. Despite some wishful thinking on the […]
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We don’t get much snow round these parts, so it was definitely fun trying to figure out what film to take when we did. This was a reasonably easy walk up onto a lowly hill – Moel Faban – but one that provides ample rewards for little effort. I needed some landscape shots of the
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We’re putting the band back together… ‘Joliet’ Jake Blues And here they are. The first three film cameras I owned…. Sort of as unfortunately there’s only one of my cameras that’s from the original line up left standing, and that’s the Praktica MTL5 , the others I’ve picked up on eBay.. The still standing MTL5
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February was a quiet month to start with – probably as I spent a load of time getting all my websites back in gear, writing tons of new content and getting this totally new website set up. Who want’s spare time anyway? Then, end of February it seems like there were sellers on eBay giving
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I know, three films on one walk sounds a bit much! But we rarely see snow in North Wales, despite the area being known in English as Snowdonia and I did throw two of them through the Fuji GS645W as test rolls. I’ll omit the very first shot, where I forgot to focus with the
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This expired Fuji Sensia 100 was one of the few fairly priced films I’ve found on eBay, although at £15 for 12 rolls of 35mm I genuinely thought this was another expired film scalper selling it by the roll. I half expected to get one roll through the mail, though I was still surprised when
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I’d never heard of Konica Impresa 50 Professional, but when I had the opportunity to buy a few bricks of this at £5 a roll who was I to argue. The bag of oven chips had to make way for 20 rolls of this exotic film and of course I had a roll in a
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There’s more than just the boxes full of camera kit that come in the post, there’s a junk box at Turning Analog HQ and there’s the box of those cameras that are oh so painfully close to being tried out with film. Here’s the current occupiers of my ‘broken biscuit’ box. For those not in
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I recently stumbled across these old negatives, and as I’d started scanning my own film I was well set up to use these as practice. They were taken using a Ricoh 500ST, or a very similar viewfinder model, and I’m hoping to recreate these shots with a copy of the camera I’ve just bought. Who
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I wonder how many of us out there still shoot APS? I like dipping my toe into any format, so dabbling a bit in APS is inevitable. On the plus side, I can develop it for the same price as regular film and I can buy it expired cheaper than 35mm where I’ve seen rolls
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The price for this mystery 110 format color film was so ridiculously low that I bought a brick of 10 rolls for a future re-loading project that will probably never happen. So I decided to shoot a test roll and see what I got, expecting very little! All I could deduce from the box was
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A while back, I was lucky enough to find a good batch of AGFA RSX II 100 from a reputable seller on eBay, who threw in a number of bonus rolls with the order. One of these was a blue roll, and I thought it was exposed as the tab was folded over, and puzzled
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These rolls of expired High Speed Ektachrome found their way to me when I bought a pair of vintage hard 120 film cases on eBay, which do that job wonderfully and meant that the film was practically free. It was advertised as three rolls of HS Ektachrome, but turned out to be some Plus-x and
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What’s the most recent arrivals at Turning Analog HQ? Or what’s in the box, my kids ask innocently, while I immediately think of the closing scenes of SE7EN. There will be nothing quite so gruesome in these posts. Konica FC-1 and a Hexanon 28mm f/3.5 lens. I bought this as I already had a Hexanon
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Getting hold of the now defunct 220 film (Shanghai excepted) is getting increasingly difficult, so I had to resort to buying highly expired Velvia 50 from around 1997. At least I got a batch of 4 so I can shoot the rest with some idea of what to expect (and yes, the others could still
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Kodak Ektachrome 100 is, thankfully, the only current slide film where it’s future is quite certain – although we hope that any rumours about Fuji ceasing production are just that. So when there’s fresh film, why shoot expired Ektachrome 100? I can’t answer that, as I don’t know why other than I can’t resist a
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I’ve had this roll of highly expired Kodak Plus-x in 120 sat in my drawer for around a year. Someone was selling a pair of cool Bakelite 120 film holders for £15 with some random film inside, so this roll was practically free. The other two rolls were High Speed Ektachrome which needed to be
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