Big grain, low saturation, off colours.

I have affection for expired fast films. Big grain, low saturation,

off colours. This is from an old roll of Fuji 800 film, given to me by

friends who stopped shooting film more than ten years ago. It was in

their fridge for a decade or so and in a desk drawer of mine for the

past year. This week I put it in my Agfa Paramat. The Paramat has an

auto-exposure system but the film speed only ranges up to 200 which is

where I set this. That's usually not a problem with older, even fresh,

film. It was a foggy day and that sort of old film was well-suited to

it.



When the image was scanned, it was scanned as a pair of half-frames

but I cut the other one (on the left of this) out of the image.

Because two were scanned together, the right edge of this image was

not included, making for a sharp edge there and a fairly skewed

picture but, again, I don't mind.



I added the noisey frame on the top, bottom and right, but it was to

(sorta) match the noisey dark area between the two images, on the

left. You can see the rough edge of the Agfa frame at the top left.

If I were to scan the whole image myself, you'd also see a substantial

notch almost half-way down the right side.