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Subject: [Leica] Old film question
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:14:20 -0500
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A modification of the advice you have been given.  Take the film and shoot
it side by side with whatever other camera you choose.  I would take
something that you can leverage with the Leica on loan program to try some
of the new lenses.  It is a bit of a hassle to shoot with two bodies but my
experience with some 15 year old Reala was if frozen the film only has
very, very minor color shift.  But, I would check on film processing in
Dublin and see if you can get negatives there.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 2:19 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at 
leica-users.org>
wrote:

> I found a bunch of old Kodak Portra film in my freezer.  It was bought
> in 07 and has been in the freezer ever since. The exp date is 8/08.  I
> though of digging out my R8 for my upcoming trip and shooting it but was
> wondering if you think it might be any good or would I just be wasting
> my money on developing costs?  If scanned do you think I could get the
> full range of colors from it?  I haven't shot any color film since about
> 2007 and thought it might be a good exercise in self control.
>
> Aram
>
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