Aurora borealis on expired Kodak Ektachrome Elite II Frame 8
Taken by our youngest, she joined me on a trip to the Sir Tatton Sykes Monument near Sledmere in East Yorkshire several months ago when we enjoyed a good display from the Aurora borealis (Northern Lights), but where I was shooting using the DSLR, she was keen to have a go with one of my old 35mm film cameras, a Nikon FM2 with a Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AI manual focus super-wideangle lens and loaded with expired (1999) Kodak Elitechrome II 400 ASA slide film. We used the DSLR to gauge exposure and added some for reciprocity failure, hoping exposures would be about right. After getting the film back from commercial E6 processing, I must admit we were pleasantly surprised that the guess had proved pretty good and the exposures were decent. This slide film had fairly pronounced grain when processed within its expiry dates, so the grain is quite pronounced in these images, but I posted them for curiosity value. The slides were scanned using a Plustek 8200 Ai film scanner to DNG raw files and processed out to jpegs using Capture One Pro 23.
Aurora borealis on expired Kodak Ektachrome Elite II Frame 8
Taken by our youngest, she joined me on a trip to the Sir Tatton Sykes Monument near Sledmere in East Yorkshire several months ago when we enjoyed a good display from the Aurora borealis (Northern Lights), but where I was shooting using the DSLR, she was keen to have a go with one of my old 35mm film cameras, a Nikon FM2 with a Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AI manual focus super-wideangle lens and loaded with expired (1999) Kodak Elitechrome II 400 ASA slide film. We used the DSLR to gauge exposure and added some for reciprocity failure, hoping exposures would be about right. After getting the film back from commercial E6 processing, I must admit we were pleasantly surprised that the guess had proved pretty good and the exposures were decent. This slide film had fairly pronounced grain when processed within its expiry dates, so the grain is quite pronounced in these images, but I posted them for curiosity value. The slides were scanned using a Plustek 8200 Ai film scanner to DNG raw files and processed out to jpegs using Capture One Pro 23.