I was killing time last Saturday and stumbled on a box of 120 rolls marked at $2 each. The expiration date says 2015, so I grabbed all 8 of them before anyone else could. Anyone here ever shoot with long expired film and get decent results?
Overheard a guy at a camera swap in Austin going on about how you should never shoot handheld with film below 400 ISO. I've been shooting a Minolta X-700 for 6 years now and I've got plenty of sharp shots at 200 ISO just bracing my arm against a wall or tree. Yeah, tripods give you perfect stability, but they also make you slow and miss candid moments. Has anyone else gotten good results ditching the tripod for street photography?
I kept taping up the back door hinges and it still had that weird orange streak on every frame. Anyone else waste half a day on something that simple?
Every single frame came out with this weird purple fog and I couldn't salvage a single shot, has anyone else gotten burned buying old stock online?
I shot 4 rolls on a trip to Portland last month and when I developed them at home, all of them came out completely clear. Turns out my Nikon FE's shutter was firing but the mirror wasn't flipping out of the way, so no light ever hit the film. Cost me about $60 in film and chemicals to learn that lesson. Has anyone else had a camera fail in a way that didn't seem obvious at first?
Tried it on a roll of Tri-X I messed up last week and saved half the frames, but the grain got so chunky it looked like gravel.