This film was on sale at my local camera store, expired between 2006 and 2008. I decided to give it a try, I mean why not? So this is about the last week in November and first week and a half or so in December.
It’s not bad stuff. I shot it sometimes at ASA200 and sometimes ASA100, and think it works well outside: shadow detail can be a bit lacking otherwise. Also for some reason the film scans always came back really dirty, lots of stuff like dust, etc, on the negatives. I shot a lot of Ilford XP2 last year and I will say that it’s nice having at least that chromogenic film stock available but I wish that Kodak would bring this back at some point…and also Plus-X. Shooting the expired stuff is fine for a bit of a change but all my reflexes at this point are for shooting ASA400 film and I don’t really want to change that up too much. I think I had 6 rolls total and they’re all gone; I don’t plan on getting more.
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That film used to be my jam back in the days where there were labs on every corner. It was handy being able to get b&w film developed by Walgreens instead of having to go to a special place!
Yes, I remember those days, when I picked up film photography again seriously in 2009/2010 I was getting all my film processed/scanned by Walgreens/CVS. It was super-disappointing when they stopped it all…