Topic: Remember those 2 bricks of Ektachrome 64 daylight I scored?

[Indofunk]

Well, I was excited because my last experience with 80's expired Ektachrome 64 daylight gave me such beautifully saturated and hued gems as this and this when shot at EI 25 and cross processed. However, these new rolls seem to be quite damaged, and everything I snap, whether at EI 25 or 50 (haven't tried any faster yet) all come out horribly overexposed. Here's one right off the scanner



Here it is after pulling the exposure back 4 stops in Lightroom and increasing the blacks 100%




Can anyone tell me what's going on here? I'm going to guess that the film itself has been fogged or something so that adding images to it just makes it way overexposed? Is it possible for me to compensate by pulling in C41 or something? I've actually found that exposing at 25 is slightly better than 50, maybe because there's more image to compete with the fog.

Oh well, at $2 a roll I could've done much worse, but I was hoping for much better 

[jharr]

I don't have anything really helpful to contribute, but looking at the photos, I was wondering if respooling it as redscale and shooting at 12 or 6 would do anything good. Maybe even shoot at 25 and push it a stop or two in processing might bump the contrast a bit, though the grain might get all 'blaaahahhhaaha', if you know what I mean.

Good luck. If you want to see what it does under California sun, I'll take a couple rolls off your hands. PM if you want to trade.

James

[Indofunk]

I'll definitely trade you a couple of rolls. These are 135, btw.

[Francois]

Slide film usually likes to be underexposed. I think it's probably still closer to its original box speed (the lower the ISO, the slower it ages).

[Indofunk]

Hm, ok, I'll try exposing the next roll at 100 and see what happens. Although, for xpro I've found that overexposing one stop creates the kind of "glow" that I like. The two examples I linked to in my OP were shot at 25 on film rated at 64...

[SLVR]

I found that ektachrome likes to be underexposed also when xpro'd. Ive even shot 100G at 400. Give it a stop or two and see how it is.

[Francois]

There's a usual simple rule when it comes to slides: do the opposite of what you'd do normally for a negative.

[Indofunk]

Ok, I'll try this next roll a couple of stops faster and see what happens! I have 40 rolls after all