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Ismaelg
Tinkerer
Username: Ismaelg
Post Number: 101
Registered: 11-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 24, 2012 - 05:27 am: | 
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Hi,
I recently acquired a fully automated film point and shoot (Pentax IQZoom 120mi) in mint condition and seems to be a fun little camera to play with and to get my kids into film. It came with a roll of Kodak Gold GC400. I have no idea how old it may be. So I used that roll to test it and I'm a bit confused now. The roll came out what I consider consistently underexposed. The images in the negs are quite faint. My scanner was able to get them out, but at the price of heavy noise. Not grain, but noise.
Here are a few samples:
http://images61.fotki.com/v535/photos/4/1233394/11445406/Scan1212230002-vi.jpg
http://images46.fotki.com/v1621/photos/4/1233394/11445406/Scan1212230002b-vi.jpg
http://images20.fotki.com/v1590/photos/4/1233394/11445406/Scan1212230002c-vi.jpg
Now my question is, could the film be bad to start with? Can film loose sensitivity? The thing is I'm not sure if it's a film or a camera issue. A fresh roll can definitely help isolate the problem but I'm asking before wasting another roll..... Maybe the DX coding did not work properly...
The camera is fully automated and auto everything so it is beyond the scope of this forum.
Thanks,
Ismael |
Waynemel
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Username: Waynemel
Post Number: 412
Registered: 08-2009
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 24, 2012 - 06:58 am: |
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Absolutely. Especially colour film. There is a rough rule of thumb that the film loses a stop for every decade past it's "process by" date. Of course, alot depends on how it was stored. |
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