How long is 35mm

Just develop and look at the negs before spending anything on prints. Sep 7, 2, 3 Is it exposed already? If it's consumer grade film like Fuji Superia or Kodak Gold or , you are probably better off.

That stuff is designed with the assumption that it will sit in a camera or on someone's shelf for long periods of time. Consumer films won't color shift as quickly or as noticeably as professional films. Assuming it's just c, why not take a roll or two to Walmart and have them developed.

But you might uncover some great images. I say go for it. T9D Diamond Member. Dec 1, 5, 8 0. So I know it's been a long time but did you ever get those developed? How did they turn out? Anything interesting on them? Years ago I took about 4 old rolls or so in to a one hour print shop and they didn't get one picture.

They were from when I was in 6th grade or so. Remember one of them was a train trip with my brother. Maybe years old I guess at the time. I've always been kind of angry that they never even got one single photo from that.

Not even a bad one. I think they didn't have the right process to develop them and screwed them up. They were those old cartridge types. From reading around it seems they should have at least gotten something from them even if they were bad.

I should have taken them to a professional developer. It's possible they were not very good and they just threw them away and said they didn't get anything assuming they must have screwed them up and didn't want to take responsibility.

Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 2 years, 6 months ago. Active 2 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 14k times. I purchased three packs of film rolls. Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Film starts to lose its "quality" the day it is made. The question is more about how long until it is noticeable, and then how long until it is no longer considered usable.

I'm going to edit it out of this one — please ask it separately. Tim Yeah, sorry — I went for the title question and the bulk of the text rather than the second one thrown in as the last sentence.

As it is, your answer only answers that last part of the question so it couldn't be "the answer" anyway. One thing you could do is ask that question yourself and then move your answer to that. The general problem is that such wiki answers tend to not get maintained. Then when they fall out of date they're a mess that's hard to clean up. I suggest just starting it as a non wiki if you have the ambition to do so.

You could follow the model of the "lens numbers and letters" question and make the top answer be a list of manufacturers and then have separate detailed answers for each. Show 4 more comments. Active Oldest Votes.

He posted the following information in a thread over there about Life expectancy for refrigerated film : In all cases where we are using film past its expiration date, the only safe approach is to try a roll OF EACH PRODUCT and evaluate it before shooting the rest of that product.

In fact there is a ton of information about this on Photo. There are also some questions here that could be useful: Does film get a chance to degrade before sale? Improve this answer. I am shooting old expired Ektachrome from June '85 , which has held up extremely well — timvrhn.

So if I'm reading that correctly, the Fujicolor effectively expired six years ago, the Kodak Ultramax is probably no good, and the Fuji XTRA might or might not still work -- test it before doing anything important.

Mark The info I posted, while relatively authoritative, is more applicable to critical or at least important use cases. A "consumer" film like Ultramax that expired "only" 2 years ago is probably still perfectly usable.

Certainly not for the trash just yet! Pushing or pulling film is when you rate your film at a different speed from the one written on the box. Then, you compensate for the difference when you develop it. Pushing will mean giving the film a higher rating and pulling a lower rating. Generally speaking you should avoid over-exposure as much as possible, regardless of which format you shoot in. Once information is over-exposed details are lost and you get a bright spot in your image which gets very distracting.

It will result in denser negatives, perhaps with more grain than you would like, and with more shadow detail. Users questions. How long is a 36 exposure roll of 35mm film? Where can I get 35 mm film developed? How much does it cost to get 35mm film developed? How can you tell if 35mm film is used? How do you know when a roll of film is done? How long is 35mm film good for? Can 35mm film still be developed?

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