G'day all.
It's been a long while since I posted in these forums, I am still interested in NBTV but have for the past 4 months sidestepped into another field of interest which is film photography and cinematography, and my specialty is using really old expired film and home developing them as a B&W negative in Caffenol C (coffee/vitamin C/washing soda) http://www.caffenol.org/recipes/ !
I started getting into Super 8 as I had some cameras handy, a roll of 1979 expired AGFACHROME Super 8 film and I only just learned that you can still buy Super 8 brand new. So I first shot my 1979 AGFA in my Canon Autozoom 518 Super 8 camera and home developed it in Caffenol C and I got dark but recognizable pictures, sent it for transfer and this was the result http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q45RMF-3pRY . I also have shot a few other expired Super 8s from the 70s and 80s along with new ones which I got professionally colour developed, they can all be seen on my YouTube channel, here are the links to my enhanced versions of my films with sound (recorded separately):
AGFACHROME (exp 1979) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgPkkGwniIk
Kodak Ektachrome 160 G (exp 1982) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAwb6KG65Ko
Svema (exp 1988) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GivSAUMk2so
Kodak Vision3 50D (new) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVcSPTBCifU
Kodak Kodachrome II (exp 1968) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5io6gXqxls (only got a few good frames on that one)
I then got into the photography side of things home developing my photo films and of course been buying ultra expired films decades old as I have some vintage cameras kickin around. The oldest used a 1951 expired Kodak Verichrome 120 type. I have uploaded them to my flickr page:
Kodak Verichrome 120 type (exp 1951) http://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N ... 713198853/
Kodak Super XX 120 type (exp 1953) http://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N ... 644925263/
Kodak Verichrome Pan 116 type (exp 1969) http://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N ... 917304115/
Getting images off really ancient film is an absolute buzz for me!!!
Also been experimenting with tri-chrome and bi-chrome photography taking B&W photos filtered with primary colours and tinting them and adding them on top of each other using my photo programs, been getting good results:
Tri-chrome http://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N ... 577220456/
Bi-chrome http://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N ... 584901484/
Lastly I have also home developed film in (would you believe) beer, yes film can be developed in beer, of course with vitamin C and washing soda combined. The beer of choice I used was good old Aussie VB Victoria Bitter, "the best cold beer is Vic, Victoria Bitter", the first roll I got ultra dark pictures due to the beer being way too warm, but the second roll I got much better results reducing the temperature and develop time and here they are on my flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N ... 606291373/ .
Anyways thought I'd share with you all what I've been up to lately as I am sure film would be also of interest in these forums.