Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/02

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Subject: [Leica] Expired film advice
From: mingthein at gmail.com (Thein Onn Ming)
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:32:02 +0800
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Nothing that important, I picked up the M6 to ride shotgun with the  
M8 for a short trip to India. The M8 isn't that reliable so I figure  
having a backup isn't a bad idea, plus I wanted to try a film M. The  
horizontal shutter is a LOT smoother than the M8's vertical one. I'd  
gladly trade the top end speeds for a shutter that smooth; it'd give  
me quite a bit of gain in low light.

Dinner turned out to be fried egg noodles with butter-fried chicken  
and eryngii mushrooms...yum.

On Jun 2, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Howard Ritter wrote:

> I agree with Richard?the film should be fine if continuously frozen.
> To be completely safe if you're planning any important (and what  
> isn't!)
> work with it, shoot a test roll of each film type on trivial  
> subjects with
> wide tonal and brightness ranges under a variety of exposure  
> conditions,
> inspect the result, and then decide.
>
> Or maybe it would be less work to chance having to Photoshop the  
> results
> (unless projecting the slides is important)!
>
> How was dinner?
>
> ?howard
>
>
> On Jun 2, 2009, at 3:29 AM, Richard Man wrote:
>
>> Freezer? Nothing to worry about. You can probably keep it there  
>> for 10+
>> years in a freezer.... Even the fridge should be good for a few  
>> years.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Thein Onn Ming  
>> <mingthein at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Quick question for the film experts out there - I discovered a  
>>> cache of
>>> slide film (velvia 50, 100, provia 100) in my freezer while  
>>> looking for
>>> something for dinner the other day. Any ideas as to whether it's  
>>> still
>>> useable, or is going to trigger horrible color shifts? Expiry  
>>> date is
>>> mid-2007, and it's been stored refrigerated both in the store and  
>>> since I
>>> bought it. Instinct tells me it's probably fine, but what do you  
>>> think?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Ming
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com
>> // w: http://www.rfman.com
>> // b: http://rfman.wordpress.com
>>
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