Expired: Kodak Elite Chrome 100
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- In today’s episode we try out a new format: EXPIRED.
We shoot one roll of expired film and show you the results to celebrate the variety film photography used to offer and the unique effects that can be created when shooting expired film. These shots will be almost impossible to reproduce since they depend not just on the light in a specific moment but also on the unique characteristics of a former film stock past its prime.
For this first episode, we are shooting Kodak Elitechrome, a color slide film directed at consumers and optimized for shooting well-saturated landscapes and nature in general. This film does not perform well for portraits but really used to shine for colorful scenes. Let’s see what we can bring out of this roll of Kodak Elitechrome today.
I found this film in the basement when looking for accessories of my father’s old Minolta XD-7. The film was in a box that he had sent me along with the camera a couple of years ago when I started out shooting film. What better camera could we use to expose the film than the Minolta XD-7 in its aperture priority mode. This is the camera that my dad used to capture almost all of my childhood images and it works perfectly fine until today.
Let’s give it a try and look at the results.
Gear used:
Minolta XD-7 with
50mm f/1.4 MD Rokkor
58mm f/1.2 MC Rokkor
24-35mm f/3.5 MD Zoom
Film used:
Kodak Elite Chrome 100
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My partner has some Elite Chrome in the freezer, also found hidden in a box in their father's basement from 2005ish.
Looks like the weather this time of year would be the perfect time to put in their XD7!
Surprisingly good results for a film expired this long. Well chosen location and music. Worth the wait, each time.
First, Fifty Thousand Subscribers!!! Your great content deserves many eyeballs!
Please, more expired film videos. Love it!
The images look great. Instagram hipsters would kill for a filter like that! Of course the pics are good in their own right, which always helps. Nice work.
This is a great episode on a great channel ☺️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Glad you enjoy it!
So colourful and nice places, congratulation!
Great video, I miss the research and history element of your videos. I learned so much from that. 🙌🏼
Great mood & flair ! Fine images, guys.
Hi there , really cool video, thanks for sharing. Cheers from Andrew in Ottawa Canada
Congrats for 50.000 subscribers!
Really great video, I enjoyed it very much, especially because I want to work with expired film too. Looking forward to your next video!
Great job Max! This was a cool episode.
Fantastic! Love all of your videos.
this looks really good my brother
Very interesting results - I like it. It is always satisfying to see the Minolta being used again. LIke you, a very personal connection (so many images of my daughter since birth were taken with a Minolta camera and Rokkor lens). The shot at 4:53 is why so many people shoot expired film... simply, an awesome result. Great job guys ! I love the new format as well. Thanks,
sehr schönes Format, bitte mehr davon👍
Wunderbares Format, bitte mehr davon. Übrigens, erstaunliche Ergebnisse, die ihr da bekommen habt. Velvia z.B. wird heftig lila wenn er so lange überlagert ist.
Keep up the feed, Max, as your content is always very watchable, with a good mix of old camera and lens review, combined with various films shot in interesting locations!
I assume you exposed at the rated speed of 100 iso? Your results were surprising. I have a number of rolls of Elite Chrome and VS (same film, Elite Chrome was the consumer packaging). These expired in 2012 and have been cold stored since they were new. They have lost about 1/2 stop. But when the exposure is adjusted accordingly, the images look fine.
That’s very interesting. Yes, we rated the film at box speed and it wasn’t cold stored properly for the entire time. Good to know what is possible with the film.
Awesome video as always. I hope film continues to have a renaissance so we can get revived versions of the many film stocks from the past
Hey guys, great episode! You always find such interesting places for your photowalks. I just bought an old TLR that came with a roll of Plus -X with 8 frames left. I shot it but sadly it was pretty far gone and the negatives are very low contrast. You seem to have had better luck and caught some interesting effects. I watch all of your stuff - I find it all very interesting.
Very well done Max and Jules. Always look forward to your episodes. Keep up the great work.
I am not a fan of expired film... BUT wow, I think it worked here! There is a "painterly" effect on some of these shots that I think is just fantastic for the venue!
A most pleasant surprise & inspirational experience from your new format, AI. Short & simple. I like it. I can’t wait to try my expired 🎞 from 20-30 years ago. However, your traditional format of well researched, masterful presentation & compelling summation on all things photography is still a labor of love for your devoted viewers. Perhaps a series on point & shoot film 📷?! Thank you for the inspiration. ✌🏼& 📸
I shot a roll of expired Elite Chrome a few weeks ago in a panoramic camera and cross processed it in C-41. It turned out wonderful also.
Very interesting you never know what an expired film will come out like once developed. It's the anticipation of waiting to see if you have managed to get a photograph. 😎👍
Beautiful piece. I liked how the film made the rusty rails much more brown to blueish in color. Very interesting.
Cheers to your father for handing down to you your XD-7. My father handed down to me his XD-11, which was my first Japanese 35mm SLR.
Cheers from USA.
wow the colors
Expired film ist always hoping for the right exposure compensation and interesting color shifts.
Like the new series.
I have a roll of elitechrome as well but I loved the results of your photos, I was wondering what iso you used when you shot this roll, thanks!
The pictures look really cool!
I like the slight shift of colors - it gives the pictures a certain charm.
Keep on the good work! I've only currently started out with analog photography and watch most of your videos.
Love the new series
Love the idea! Can't wait to see what kind of results you guys get out of the next expired film.
That is very cool. I just shot three rolls of 20 year expired Fuji Superia Xtra 400 and still have an 18 year expired Kodak Max 400 that I will shoot this weekend. I am interested to see how the film turns out! It was very interesting to see the color shift happening, and wonder if my film will have color shifts as well. Another great video and excited to see more of this series!
Woah Max some great colours and tones there. Yes not true to life, but the outcome I felt was better than expected. Good detail reproduction too. As usual you’re dressed like a gentleman and your video has high production values. Please send my regards to Jules and Greg. Please explore more new film like Cinestill 400D and Santacolour 100 if you could. I certainly felt this video added variety to your channel. Please continue making videos Thank you. The music in this video was phenomenal.
Wow, some of those images are beautiful. I'd be thrilled to get such good results from expired film. I have 8 rolls of different expired films that came with 3 different camera purchases. I really enjoy your channel and look forward to the next Expired video (and all the others).
Color reversal is so limited to any play with light. You need to expose your film spot on. Adding the fact i5s expired and you don’t really know what condition the roll is, it makes it very difficult to achieve any really decent photographs. However, it’s lots of fun experimenting. Color negative film is a bit more forgiving. EliteChrome was definitely one of the best reversal films ever. It’s something that would be a great hit if ever brought back.
I like it!
Love it!!!!! cool film and cool cameras. U guys are way too well dressed for urbex though! Hahaha.
Some fabulous shots there, thanks. Just wondering if you'd thought about offering selling prints from the episodes? Or maybe a photobook of a selection from this and previous episodes? Cheers.
I shot a roll of expired Elite Chrome 100 in the week leading up to the pandemic. Something about the cool-blue tint on the shadows reminds me of that period very vividly now.
Great video!! Interesting colour shift with the film. Good to see it worked out considering how hit and miss expired film can be. And, especially slide film. I like this format and hope to see more of it in the future. Just don't go buying any Kodak Aerochrome to try out, otherwise you'll have to take out a loan to pay it off!!!
Another lovely episode. With respect to the colour processing it seems like the lab used the existing film curves for kodak elite chrome 100, without doing adjustments. Or maybe it's just me. But if I take a screen grab and reset the blue channel back to 0-255 the photos no longer have the blue cast.
I had shot one roll of Kodak Ektachrome E100vs expired in 2004, it had same color shift that you show in the video, but the film got a great colors when shot in strong sunlight, especially in yellow and red.
Last year I purchased several rolls of expired slide film, and in that batch was a roll of Elite Chrome 100 of the same vintage of 2004, which I shot this spring. Oddly enough, now that that roll has come back from the lab, the colour shift is much lower than the roll you shot. Perhaps mine was stored in better conditions.
In fact, your roll looks closer in colour to the rolls of Ektachrome I shot while on vacation in Spain in December, and those expired in 1988!
I really enjoy your videos and the knowledge that you have. Sidenote: Your voice and calm manner would be perfect for ASMR or reading audio books. You should consider doing one of those ;-)
I have shot Fuji Velvia that is 12 years old that was freezer stored the entire time. I shot it at box speed and the images were perfect. Perfect exposures and no colour shifts. I have about 20 rolls of Velvia that I bought 3 years ago (so now expired) but I have a dedicated mini freezer for storing all my film. I now know that it will last for ages with minimal degradation if stored frozen. I am guessing this roll of Kodak Elite Chrome was not stored on ice!!
I got ten rolls of Kodak Elite Chrome, still shrink wrapped packaged as a block of ten. I am currently shooting Agfa Ct Precisa slide film bought around the same time. The results are great, I am not seeing the weird color shifts you're seeing in your images. Both my Agfa and Kodak have been stored the same way, so I expect the Kodak to be as stable. We'll see.
I shot a roll of this, over exposed 1 stop to compensate for the expiration, and cross processed at the lab. I got some of the most interesting cross processed results from this film and recommend for you to try as well 😎
Some of the shots look really creative with the blue and red shift . Maybe if you found another roll of film your approach would exploit the full potential of the colour shift. Good work.
I like the format!
I’m surprised how good the film kept up after all those years.
Yes, we were also quite surprised about that. :)
I have never tried expired films. But I did shoot a few rolls of Elitechrome in my Lomo LC-A back in around 2003-2005 and cross-processed them (the popular lomography thing to do back then). This film, which also came in 400iso version, was the best for cross-processing in my opinion because the colors stayed the same but only got much more vivid and contrasty (blues, reds and greens would really pop) - compared to fuji slide films that usually shifted into a single dominant color cast - green or purple. I would absolutely not cross-process fresh slide films now, but maybe consider it if I had long expired slide film to play with.
Ive only ever shot E6 at box. My first roll of this stock goes in today
Minolta, sehr schön
i've got some 30+ years expired fujichrome and ektachrome to shoot as well as an almost 40 year expired roll of ilford hp5
Any advice?
Very cool photos. I also recently received a 20 year old kodak ektachrome from a stranger at the market here in Tallinn, Estonia. We were both shooting a pop-up vinyl market and started talking. At the end of our conversation he gifted me the aforementioned film. He gave me some instructions but I don't remember all of it. Just remember that he said overcast day would be great. I have never shot a slidefilm before. Every advice is appreciated. One of my friends said I should try both Iso 75 and boxspeed.
Thanks
Well this about as far from digital photography as you can get! Not only can you not see what you’ve photographed straight away, you actually have no idea what will happen to the colours and contrast! It’s a great experiment and the photographs really turned out well!
Great images as always! Also, that's a really neat camera bag! What's it called? :D
That's my Oberwerth München. You can get 10% off using the code ANALOGINSIGHTS when purchasing any Oberwerth camera bag on their website: oberwerth.com/
I definitely like this new series.. having shot expired film all my life, you never know what you'll get! Try cross-processing as well. Not sure I like the echo audio you used.. maybe you wanted to differentiate it from the camera/lens review series? Jars a bit.. maybe tone down the effect a tad.
Nice video!
Very interesting! I’d also like to see how an expired b/w film turns out, and perhaps how much refrigerated and frozen expired film do better. I myself have a pack of Ilford Delta 400 220 rolls in the freezer that has been there since 1999.
Nach so vielen Jahren fehlt dem Film die Grundschwärze.(Eine gute Grundschwärze war bei z.B.Agfa Farbdiafilmen bei der Produktentwicklung Bedingung für eine neutrale Farbwiedergabe)Einen ähnlichen Effekt haben wir auch bei sehr gealterten TV-Farbbildröhren: Statt schwarz nur noch ein sehr transparentes flaues grau.
I would have probably rated it at 25, but definitely not box speed. You did pick the perfect environment to play with the color shifts with the graffiti.
Some say a stop for every 10 years expired.. so that would have been two stops.. which is.. 25ASA! Spot on.
That rule applies to slide film. B&W the sensitivity decline is less, and colour film (non-slide) sort of in between.
Like the format. A little bit more technical details would be helpful, like development info C41 or E6, exposure (boxspeed or overexposed by 2 stops ?)
I love the idea of shooting expired film but everything I'm finding is at least as expensive as fresh film.
Online consensus is to give it one extra stop of exposure for every decade it has expired. Did you shoot at box speed or make any adjustment?
This is correct for color negative film and black and white film. Yet, for slide film it is generally recommended to shoot at box speed which we did here. Nevertheless, it seems like the film could have taken a bit more light in this case. :)
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Hi I have just came across your Channel I have not shot film in 20 years borrowed my son's canon 50e camera and a roll of expired Fujifilm superia 1600 film dated 2008 . 04 waiting on the from prints the drug store. PS I notice all your cameras are in mint condition do you have them reconditioned.
did you shoot at box speed , or go down one stop ?
Did you shot it at box speed ? Any tips for developing and metering? I have many rolls of this film
Very, very interesting expired effect. Looks almost as drug - induced 🤣
I remember that film, I've used it a lot in the early 90's when it launched.
And yes, I have a lot of expired slide film stored (yep, most of them expired around 2004.), but my films are cold stored, in the deep freeze most of the time, so when I pull out one of them and shoot it, the results are almost as if the film was fresh.
Übrigens, kannst du mir sagen, wo dieser Bahnhof eigentlich ist? Ich war ziemlich oft im Olympiazentrum, aber ich hab´ nie von diesem Bahnhof gehört.
Gruß
Nice video (except the sound volume fluctuated too much); the mood and format is engaging.
Thanks for your feedback. Really appreciate it.
I'd watch you guys rate a phonebook so definitely into this.
Great fun, maybe try an expired roll on a half-frame. (Pen with a Nikkor lens adapted, hint).
Stay safe.Peace
That's a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
I love and use expired film, sometimes results are super cool and sometimes results are total shit but I love to shoot expired film, I must be crazy 🙃
Auch das ist München!😎❤
Really loved this! I’ve got a roll of Reala 100 that expired in 2001. If you’d like to shoot it for the channel, contact me and I’ll gladly send it your way. I may have more than one roll but I know I have at least the one.
Keep up the great work!
where were the pictures taken
Here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchen_Olympiastadion_station?wprov=sfti1
Reminds me of cross processed slide film results...
Scanning imposes its own need for colour decisions, doesn't it? Whether a lab applies manual adjustments or relies on automatic procedures there is no absolute right or wrong with colour. Clearly the expired film has its own signature, but exactly what that signature is allowed to be, and the extent of many shifts, is a consequence of decisions applied in the lab and post scan. When scanning in date colour film I, myself, find I'm having to make radical decisions on the colour balance. Perhaps your images here could have been presented in many different ways with different "looks."
OK that was nice, as usual well shot video. However, please, please, please if you plan shooting expired film ALWAYS shoot cold-stored or frozen film so people can see the true colour palette of these gorgeous expired films. It take more digging, but you will find it if you try. Kodak Elite Chrome 100 EBX was the prosumer 35mm version of Kodak's E100 VS (Vivid Saturation, and reports state that it was made from the 120 and sheet film rolls that didn't come up to Kodak's full specs. Released in 1991 to compete with the success of Fujifilm's Velvia line it stayed in production until March 2012; so there is 2014 expiry film available. I've shot E100VS frozen with 2014 expiry and it was good as new. By the way, after Kodak ceased production of their famous Kodachrome National Geographic photographers like Steve McCurry shifted over to E100 VS.
Thomas Danhausser, who was Product Development Engineer - Ektachrome photographic films at Kodak in Rochester from July 1986 - June 2000 wrote to me that …
"EBX (EliteChrome Extra Color 100) was the consumer version of Ektachrome E100VS. I was part of the R&D team that created these films; the films were first commercialized in 1999. I was a member of product development teams responsible for the successful design of four new Ektachrome color slide films that were first commercialized in 1999".
Knallige Farben👍 aber blau zulaufende Schatten.
This film, as yourself said was more suited for landscape photography. What a waist having shot it in such environment. Very disappointed. Sorry, but this is the way I feel, especially if this was the unique roll of Elite Chrome gave you Anyway, as long as you liked it, that's the most important.