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easter trip to säffle, sweden

In the Easter week of 2019, my girlfriend and I decided to take a trip to an apartment my family owns in Säffle, Sweden as she hadn’t been there before. After finishing my three rolls of film I was eager to find more. I went searching in all the camera stores on our way to Sweden but was in no luck and my last bet was an old camera store in Säffle itself. At first try, there were out of stock due to its recent popularity. He only had expired film left, one from 1998 and one from 2007. So I started my walk back to the apartment when I realized that expired film is better than no film. I sprinted back to ask the staff I could buy the expired ones, but he didn’t want to sell me them. He only wanted to give them to me because he didn’t know if it would work, but I decided to try anyway and it came out amazing!

The store staff gave me an old Kodak Color Plus ISO 200 expired back in 2007. After only shooting only expired film and only finding expired film, no wonder I thought there was no new film to be found. The Kodak Color Plus is a very affordable film, think about 5 dollars or 50 NOK per roll. Around half the cost of Kodak Portra 400 witch is the one most people use nowadays. I like the colors that came from this film. I need to pick up some more of the film later to see if it holds up or if it was because of the expired date.

Here are the pictures from Säffle and our return home. On the way home, I dropped my girlfriend off in Hamar, Norway for her last days of school there.

I LOVE THE GRAIN IN THESE PHOTOS! LOOKS PERFECT! :)

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Roll 2 & 3 of Expired Fujifilm Superia 200

Following up my last post about my first experience with the Olympus OM10 and analog photography. Here’s the pictures from my two next rolls of expired Superia 200 shot i march of 2019.

Here is where my project started. My project changed from taking photos of the camera’s to taking analog photos. I wanted to see what was possible with this camera and the expired film. Keeping in mind from last post that i didn’t even know if any photos would come out or how they would look. In this roll i wanted to try to photograph some portraits of my friends to see how it would handle skin tones. You can also see me experimenting with F-stop to try to see the difference in sharpness and how the lens holds up.

When trying to understand how film works, we have to first take a lot of photos and review them with the critical eye.

You can see in the photos is that if the pictures are taken inside, you see they are very yellow if taken with artificial light. If taken in natural light, it looks alright in the daytime with correct exposure. I also see strongly that there’s a lot of magenta in some of the photos, don’t know if that’s a fault of the expired film, if I fucked up the exposure or if that’s how the stock works. I guess we’ll see in the future when I have shot some more analog film and have tried out different film stocks. (Which I already have don’t but haven’t shared and reviewed yet. so more to come! :) )