How To Shoot Expired Film

EXPIRED FILM Is Not DEAD // HOW To SHOOT Expired 35MM Film
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[danielschiffer]

Wow, this is an amazingly put together video! I can see how much work you put into this and it really paid off! Super fun to watch and really inspiring. And to answer your questions, I have shot film before and I enjoy it- but sometimes it's difficult to convince myself to take out the film camera when I've got my fancy new stuff in front of me 😅

[ehJoe]

My father was a photographer he had many different 35 mm cameras, his favorite was his Mamiya 6x7 when he passed in 2003 we decided to take his un developed film and was like he was alive again through his photography. If he was alive today I think he would still be shooting with film alone ever old film.

[mariopiper]

Great video, sir! I gave up digital two years back, and haven’t looked back since. Now, I love love love shooting film! All kinds! Fresh, expired, really expired, really really expired, slow film, ultra slow film, slide, special effects, redscale, b&w…all kinds! What a journey!!!

[rodrrico]

Mark you go from strength to strength. This might just be your best video on youtube - it's certainly my favourite video you've made. I love the detail you go into on a once highly technical craft. I see quite a few comments here asking for a comparison between analogue and digital which I'll assume you are all over, so looking forward to that one down the line!

Also, I had a look at your shots. I am leaning on the higher contrast +2 shots overall. Either way, you can't beat that natural 'real' film grain. Ahhhh the nostalgia.

[djtoman]

I love that you shot Ultramax here. My buddy and I are so enamoured with the colour palette of this emulsion that we have taken to calling it "Ultracrack".

I only found your channel this morning, and I am already a fan. You are a brilliant filmmaker with exceptional skills and beautiful storytelling ability. I'm happy to be an "early" subscriber before your channel completely blows up and goes straight beyond 100K subscribers.

BTW, what's the deal with you Canadian YouTubers, eh? The per capita greatness in your country is off the charts, mate.

[Left-Earth]

A time capsule that captures the modern times we live in. Excellent video, as always. 📸

[TOMORROWSPHERE]

Great video! I use to shoot film until 2000. As a family, we use to buy a film that was mail ordered from CA, the film was advertised as motion picture film quality. You would shoot the roll and send it back, they would send you back the printed pictures, the negatives and slides, plus your next roll of film. It was great to have that the option of all three formats. Slides and slide projecting was always the way our family showed trips and events.

[chrisbluhm]

Youre videos are unbelivable. Every second is exiting. Great job!

[Reversefilms]

I love shooting film, it has a lot of character and a certain charm to it. It’s a 50/50 if I’ll take a digital or film camera with me somewhere, depends what I’m feeling on the day.

[aristoioannidis]

This is one of your best Mark. You have inspired me to take on expired film. I love your channel. All the best.

[efeersoy]

Nice to meet you Mark,
I started analog photography about last year and I enjoy it a lot even the exposed films are too expensive in my country..
Anyway, I gotta admit that I loved your entrance, I just feel like the same when "reloading" my oldie, as a good old magnum takes its' bullet, heheh.
Take care!

[timskinnercanada]

Outstanding work Mark. Always a treat just to see how you stitch these together. So slick! :) Glad you enjoyed the film experience. I’ll never shoot film again but I enjoy seeing other people do it. Can’t wait to see how you like the transparency experiment. :)

[topicruben]

Another Canadian friend! I have been interacting with you on Twitter but I hadn’t subscribed to you channel 😲, until now! It must’ve been weird to have a real camera and a digital one side by side 😄. Beautiful video man. Very engaging. There’s nothing like manual cameras and settings, and those films!!! Keep rocking and stay safe 👍

[PeterBrockie]

In my experience colour film doesn't seem to hold up as well as black and white when it is expired.

Obviously if you are dealing with stuff from the 80s it'll all be poor, but colour seems to just get soooo grainy and have so little detail that I don't think it is worth using when heavily expired.

IR film tends to degrade when super old a lot faster than normal black and white. (presumably due to its sensitivity to cosmic rays).

Ahh the days of going to Shoppers or Loblaws to get your stuff developed. I spent most of 2016 shooting and home developing film. I totally recommend trying it at home - black and white especially since you need little in the way of chemicals and if you do "stand development" it basically auto adjusts for your settings (leave it developing on your counter for an hour and drain).

[oliverwright]

Super creative and really well put together, dude!

[Vedrajrm]

My first camera was a fixed film camera (no lense attachments) shooting it was an awesome experience
And I really want to relive that experience .

[seanissofresh]

I used to work in a digital lab. We had a film processing machine with chemicals when I first started there, but we would always scan the negatives digitally then push them in the computer before sending to print.

It's always good to have a relationship with the person printing your film, or digitizing it for you. The graphics department in general. It's hard to tell otherwise if what you are getting back from your film processing if they altered it to make sure you got a good image in the end, or if they are staying true to your intent when shooting.

It looks to me like the images you underexposed were actually bumped up by the lab technician...I see the graininess that appears when you bump up the levels to bring the overall luminosity to a good spot on the histogram. Allows you to see everything fine, but it kills the saturation, ups the shadows, and causes the grain to appear. Digitally, it often introduces red and green pixels if done in a certain order you can sometimes avoid that in editing. But it washes out colors, which is what I think you see in the comparison. Some of them looked better exposing "correctly" in camera despite the advice to overexpose for the age of the film...but I'm also viewing on my phone and not really seeing pixel for pixel.

Either way, cool video.

[gabrielalamberti]

I love shooting film, but in Argentina, film and film developing it's so expensive. So I don't do so much lately.

[ChandraPivo]

You are awesome! Subscribed! Saw your comment on Andrew M. Warner Channel.  I shot and developed real film in high school for two years. It was the best!

[paulm]

Well done vid — brings back fond memories when I shot 35mm B&W and slides (Extachrome and Agfachrome) — had a bathroom dark room and did some slide developing, too. Agfa and Extrachromes had kits for the home processor. Tips from back then — to squeeze out an extra frame or two load camera in a “changing bag” so as to begin the first frame sooner, and near the roll end gently advance the film a frame (or two) beyond the camera’s frame number for the film length. Next, rewind carefully to about a half turn after you feel the loss of tension — this leaves an inch or so of the film roll (the tail) outside the canister (helps avoid light leaks than can result when you rewind the film entirely inside the canister). Check to see if the camera’s frame number dial rotates backward — a bit after it stops moving, you should be o.k. You are experiencing the joys of film — something few folks do today. Terrific that you have an accommodating lab/retail outlet in your area. Great colors in the processed film. Read that Kodak is re-releasing some 35mm Extachrome soon (don’t remember the speed, but 64 used to be my favorite). You can, of course, mix technologies by scanning negatives and digitally processing in LR/PS — what great vids those would make! I look forward to your next analog adventure.