10 year old Fujicolor Superia 400 ASA

<p>Was wondering about other readers experience with regards to using 'old' film:<br /><br />In this case 10 year old Fujicolor Superia 400 ASA.<br />Been kept in the fridge (not freezer) for a decade...<br /><br />Effects: <br />- Lost half of it's colour saturation. Especially RED representation is very weak, blue seems ok, green weakish.<br />- Has become very 'hard' (bleached high lights, dark/black shadows).<br />- Grain seems very pronounced. <br /><br />In short it looks more like a graphical film. Somewhat interesting, but not good for normal photography. Effects would resemble like pushing a fresh film (too) hard I suppose. Got several more rolls, also 200 ASA, as well as Kodak Professional Supra 800 ASA. Not sure what to do with them...??? <br /><br />Any tips, suggestions welcome. <br /> Thanks, Frank</p>

<p>It sounds like you could probably find subjects appropriate to that harsh type of look: urban decay, cemeteries, anything you want to have a gritty look. With the 400, you are dealing with a known quantity.</p>

<p>@ Evan: Good idea, we have got plenty of that urban decay here in London :-)</p>

<p>perhaps try overexposing by 2 stops. and developing as normal</p>

<p>I would certainly go with the suggestion to overexpose -try + 1F to begin with. The higher speed film is likely to suffer more from age-related effects : you may wish to try plus 1.5/2F compensation,but I would not use it for anything important.<br>

As the film ages it loses effective speed, and an underexposed color negative film will always show excessive grain and poor shadow density.</p>