The adventure begins... I am embarking on a real PMAE (push my artistic envelope) I have several rolls of film 120 & 35mm that was my Dad's. Some of it is almost 70 years old or out of date. I am starting with the Ektachrome with a process before March 1960 date. I have never shot this type of film before either. I am using my Minolta X700 which is a baby as compared to the film (58 or 59 years old), being only 32 years old. I am also creating my own version of metadata- manually noting what I shoot each frame at, with and how as well as where.
I will be updating as I get this roll shot and processed. This is going to be fun at least that's my story at present.
Also, I shot this with my new toy, an original lensbaby lens, (circa 2004). This is similar to the current Lensbaby Spark. It is a canon mount so the toy required an adapter to my Sony A6000.
I went to my old place day before yesterday and took with me all of my old cameras from there. Now I have to set up the lightbox so I can photograph them, and then have to drive to town to get film - which is costing money.
Yeah! Look forward to seeing the results. I pushed the exposure of my 10 years expired b&w film of 2/3 of a stop and had it developed normally: it was a 400 ISO film I shot setting the exposure at 250 and had it developed for 400 ISO. The results were reasonable (and software allows corrections)
@domenicododaro Thank you so much. This film is color transparency and asks for an ASA of 36. Do you think that I should lower that? Fun=courage at times, si?
@golftragic Thank you, I have been developing courage to get back into using film for a while. The project with Domenico @domenicododaro really was huge boost in that arena. It also finally hit me, I have nothing to loose and all to gain. Even though my Dad is no longer around, I believe he would be intrigued.
@joysabin ASA 36? Oh my, this is slow! It means that applying the Sunny 16 rule, on a sunny day you should shoot f:16 at 1/30... A no-go for low light conditions. Certainly you will need to extra expose to compensate the loss of sensitivity of the film.
@domenicododaro I'd never heard of the sunny 16 rule but makes sense. I know that my Dad was adventurous with photography so I guess that is where I may have acquired my craziness.
@jack4john There is even a youtube video about shooting/processing olf film ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WngCvyL0xU8 ). Youtube knowseverthing????