If the films were refrigerated or frozen, they might be surprisingly good. The Ektachrome and Fujichrome may give you some pretty strange colors. The others are print films, and many color-shift sins can be absolved in printing.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Tue, 4/5/11, Sam L <samthegr...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Sam L <samthegr...@gmail.com> > Subject: Are these old films worth using? > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2011, 9:39 PM > Hi all, > > I just picked up a batch of film from my local freecycle > list. I > thought they were non-expired, > but sadly, that is not the case. So of the films > below, are any worth > my developing dollars? > (I know I can get C-41 done for somewhat cheap down at my > local Walgreens) > I'm guessing I should just throw it all out. > > FILM > > EXP DATE > PROCESS > Kodak Ektachrome 100 HC > 1991-08 > ???? > Kodak Max 400 > > 2004-09 > C-41 > Fujichrome Provia 100 > 1996-12 > CR-56 > Fujicolor Superia Reala > ????-?? > > C-41 > Kodak Gold 200 > > ????-?? > C-41 > > Thanks! > > --------------------------- > Sam > > PS: Ektachrome slide film from 1991? 20 years > expired. Wow. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
