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What Happens When You Shoot With Expired Film?

Chris Gampat
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04/12/2017
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Last Updated on 04/12/2017 by Chris Gampat

The folks over at Dyson media teamed up with photographer Alastair Bird to see what would happen when you shoot with expired film. As analog film photography is currently seeing a resurgence, it’s a question many people have on their mind. Alastair decided to load up some Leicas and an old Balda camera to show off what happens when working with the film.

As he explains in the video, it’s pretty easy to get good photos with expired film, depending on how it was cared for. You see, film is an organic substance and you have to think of it like food. When you have food, you find a way to preserve it by freezing it or putting it in the fridge. When you’re ready to shoot with it, you let it defrost and thaw out naturally with the environment. If you do this, you can shoot film that has been expired for probably over 10 years with good results. I’ve done it in my Fujifilm GW690 III review.

Similarly, when Alastair went to go shoot photos, he got some interesting and fun results. As he states, he doesn’t use film to do commercial work. But instead, he uses it just for fun. And that’s what it’s supposed to be. It’s a much different experience from shooting digital.

Oddly enough, digital photographers love these kinds of effects that he gets on the film. They’re cool looking and don’t typically happen in digital photography because it’s a totally different type of image taking process.

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Be sure to check out more from Alastair over at Underexposed on YouTube.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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