It's April! You have more light than the forecast predicted today and a ton of expired film in your freezer, along with some E-6 chemistry you mixed up last week rapidly deteriorating. What do you do?
_ With patience & maturity, take shots worth taking_ With nothing to lose, shoot radically and freely
> Just take pictures of flowers, I guess
Based on the moderate darkness of the slides I originally thought this 400F expired in 2004 might have lost a bit of sensitivity, but that's hard to square with the fact that the shots above are all white balanced to 7500K for a mild warmth and at 6500K it's exactly what you'd expect from a daylight slide film.
One possibility is sensitivity was lost uniformly across all layers and the other is that I just wasn't metering properly. Actually come to think of it I didn't take a meter out with me so it was probably that.
Otherwise my takeaway here is that I need to figure out a fix for my film flatness problem in the Coolscan. You may or may not notice at Cohost resolution, but there's a pretty narrow sliver of each of these that has grain-focus sharpness and the rest is soft and fuzzy. One of the 4 clamps in my 120 holder is broken which is not a big deal with fresh film but this expired stuff really likes to bow and I gotta find a piece of glass to lay on top and press it down.
CineStill D6 (1+1) 6m15s @ 106F => CR6 8m @ 106F
Nikon LS-8000 => VueScan => Adobe Lightroom Classic

