Expired: Kodak Elite Chrome 100

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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