{"id":631,"date":"2010-02-28T20:48:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T00:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=631"},"modified":"2021-10-18T16:29:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T20:29:16","slug":"old-expired-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2010\/02\/28\/old-expired-film.html","title":{"rendered":"Old, Expired Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shot 30-something photos on a roll of old, old film. I knew the film had expired as many as 10 years ago but I was still bummed when the prints came back from developing. They were dark and dim, though one or two of the prints had ghostly appeal.<\/p>\n<p>I should not have given those prints much heed, though. Generated by an assembly-line developing process I stashed the adventurelessly-produced prints back in the envelope and worked with the negatives, digitizing them with a film scanner before the next step, which will be to revive the old darkroom gear sitting dormant in my kitchen. I don&#8217;t know when that will happen but the darkroom endeavor is another of my long-intended projects that I sense will come to fruition soon.<\/p>\n<p>Some would call these prints a noisy mess, and some do feel like they rose up from the 12th century, or at least from mid-20th-century newsreels. An afternoon of re-touching could have them looking almost respectable, but I like them as they are. Here are a few. I shall add these and some others to the <a title=\"Film Photography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sorabji.com\/pictures\/Film\/\">Film Photography<\/a> section later on.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3203\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3203\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3203\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/MINOLTA_026_001.jpg?resize=670%2C442&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Flags\" width=\"670\" height=\"442\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flags<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3204\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3204\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3204\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/MINOLTA_001_001.jpg?resize=670%2C445&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lights\" width=\"670\" height=\"445\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lights<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3205\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3205\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3205\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/MINOLTA_038_001.jpg?resize=670%2C440&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Face\" width=\"670\" height=\"440\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Face<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3206\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3206\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3206\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/MINOLTA_007_001.jpg?resize=670%2C505&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Newspaper\" width=\"670\" height=\"505\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newspaper<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3207\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3207\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3207\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/MINOLTA_029_001.jpg?resize=670%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dreamland\" width=\"670\" height=\"360\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dreamland<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shot 30-something photos on a roll of old, old film. I knew the film had expired as many as 10 years ago but I was still bummed when the prints came back from developing. They were dark and dim, though one or two of the prints had ghostly appeal. I should not have given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-181-2","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/MINOLTA_026_001-1024x676-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C676&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-ab","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29468,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/29468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}