Time for another round of America's favorite gameshow:
How Cooked Is It???[raucous applause from the audience]
Folks, it's deep-fried.
Kodak's low-speed daylight chrome, unknown storage history and expiration date. Based on some tungsten Ektachrome from the same prior owner, it could be 2004? Whatever its vintage, it has Gone Off.
This didn't come out toothpaste-y like the cooked Sensia, it's got more of what seems like a loss of blue sensitivity? Sprocket area isn't fully opaque and the rebate text is more a dull amber than bright orange.
This test roll was doing double duty: the film itself, but also the Goodwill-sourced 90-240mm f/4.5 for my Mamiya AutoXTL. You may be thinking: why would you use an expired ISO 64 film you'll be shooting at 50 to test a slow telephoto zoom? And the answer is because I truly wanted to not care.
I wanted to take a bunch of bad photos and have no investment in the outcome. And if that meant also carrying a tripod around to take the bad photos, then that's what I'd do.
So here are a couple (literally) of those bad photos: as scanned (VueScan: no color adjustment, fixed 1.8 RGB exposure) and then two different processing options: a softer pastel-y approach that honors the muted effect of the expired stock's loss of contrast, and a more aggressive attempt to bring it in line with its original role as a lively and rich slide film.
Between mirror slap-prone shutter speeds, heavy activation pressure required to shoot on this camera (and a failing cable release port apparently!) I won't use this roll as any test of its sharpness even with the tripod shots, but I was able to feel out ergonomics, flaring, and other basics. Big takeaway is that it seems to vignette like a motherfucker wide open. May just be when the hood's extended but it's really not much of a hood to speak of so I doubt it.
I don't know what the next #boodooroll will be but this sure is this one that I didn't even honor with a sequential number.
CineStill D6 (1+1) 7m @ 104F => Cr6 8m @ 104F
Konica Minolta DiMAGE SE5400II => VueScan => Adobe Lightroom Classic

