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Along The Way
It was a pretty hot but totally overcast day. Not really photo weather, if you will: too warm and sweaty to hike around comfortably, boring skies. Still, I thought I could try out some more old Agfapan 400, this time in 120, after shooting lots of it in 35mm lately.
The 35mm and 120 film came from different sources. I found that the 35mm stock, which I knew expired in 1995, was very good at about EI 80 to 100. I had no clue how the 120 film was stored and when it expired. Plus, I only had this one single roll of it so I couldn’t even do a test roll. I guessed the film expired in the early 2000s because that’s when all the other film of the bulk lot this one was in expired. Assuming storage at room temperature, I figured EI 160 would be about right. Good guess!
The film shows artifacts of fogging as I have seen quite a bit with faster expired film. With this shot, I do embrace it, though. I think it makes the scene look more interesting. Especially with the slight warm tone I put onto the scan, it amplifies a certain vintage feeling.
Mamiya RB 67 Pro S + Sekor C 65mm f4.5 + Agfapan 400
Expiry date: 2000s (?)
Exposure index: 160
Dust cleaned and toned in Affinity Photo 2.
Scanned on a Heidelberg/Linotype-Hell Saphir Ultra II using Vuescan.
Along The Way
It was a pretty hot but totally overcast day. Not really photo weather, if you will: too warm and sweaty to hike around comfortably, boring skies. Still, I thought I could try out some more old Agfapan 400, this time in 120, after shooting lots of it in 35mm lately.
The 35mm and 120 film came from different sources. I found that the 35mm stock, which I knew expired in 1995, was very good at about EI 80 to 100. I had no clue how the 120 film was stored and when it expired. Plus, I only had this one single roll of it so I couldn’t even do a test roll. I guessed the film expired in the early 2000s because that’s when all the other film of the bulk lot this one was in expired. Assuming storage at room temperature, I figured EI 160 would be about right. Good guess!
The film shows artifacts of fogging as I have seen quite a bit with faster expired film. With this shot, I do embrace it, though. I think it makes the scene look more interesting. Especially with the slight warm tone I put onto the scan, it amplifies a certain vintage feeling.
Mamiya RB 67 Pro S + Sekor C 65mm f4.5 + Agfapan 400
Expiry date: 2000s (?)
Exposure index: 160
Dust cleaned and toned in Affinity Photo 2.
Scanned on a Heidelberg/Linotype-Hell Saphir Ultra II using Vuescan.