Expired - Kodak Elite Chrome 200, One of the Three Musketeers - Ep. 6

Hello guys, welcome back to the channel. The fifth episode will be about expired Kodak Elite Chrome 200. I got this roll without box, so I am not sure when it expired, but when I bought it, it came with another roll of Elite Chrome 200 and this film was expired in February 2008, so I will assume they were both bought at the same time and have the same expiration date. So, following the last two episodes on expired negative color and black and white films, on this episode we will be shooting positive, slide or diapositive film, which is all the same. This is a flea market film, so I have no idea how it was stored during all this years, which adds to it this wonderful veil of mysteriousness. Unlike negative film that loses speed with time, therefore we apply the rule of thumbs, which is 1 spot overexposing per decade of expiration, slides don’t really need that. But, as everything else in life, there is some contestation to this argument, so we will shoot this film in three stages: • Stage 1: is to shoot 18 exposures at box speed; • Stage 2: is to shoot 12 exposures +1 stop; • Stage 3: is to shoot 6 exposures +2 stops. I have shoot expired slides in the past so, I am expecting it to do well at box speed, even 10 years after expiration, but maybe to lose some details in the shadows. At +1 stop, I think it will still do well, but we might get some blown high lights. At +2 stops, which I have never tried, I am expecting, just overexposed images. But nothing is as good as to test it ourselves. If you are not familiarized with it, Elite Chrome is a reversal film and what is a reversal film? It’s a type of film that produces a positive image on a transparent base. Meaning that when you develop it, you already get this small “real colours” images, instead of a negative. It was very popular in the past to mount the transparencies in a plastic frame and to use a slide projector to view the images. It was kind of the hardware predecessor of Microsoft PowerPoint. As to the film itself, it is an E-6 process film and it features the T-grain structure. Kodak says “The film offers moderate contrast, along with excellent color and image structure.” Because it features T-grain structure, we can expect it to have very fine grain and to be very sharp. Being an ISO 200 film, it is perfect for shooting outside during a summer day. Kodak Elite Chrome was part of the “Select Series” which consisted on the Kodachrome, Elite Chrome and Royal Gold. Have you had the pleasure of shooting the three of them? I am sure not many people can answer positively to this question, but if you are one of them, please let us know on comments section below and what is your opinion.