Monday, December 5, 2011

What happens if you wait too long to develop the film in a disposable camera?

Someone told me that all that happens is that the colors distort. But do the images still come out? I have rolls of film that should have been developed before 2004.|||The kind of camera means nothing here. The film is the same if from a $6.95 disposable or a $6,950 Gold Leica...


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If in the average home, shoved in a drawer, chances are in your favor the film will give usable prints.|||It depends on how it was stored. The chemistry that was triggered by the light hitting the film changed the film and made it less reliable until the extra chemicals are developed out. It is likely the images will have shifted color - a nice blue sky green grass yellow shirt might be more purple, less green and orangish yellow or all the image might have faded.


If you have many rolls, I would suggest having one developed to see the result and if you suppose they have something important to you, go to a professional lab and ask them about rescue processing steps. It will cost more than shoving it through a machine and accepting the results.|||It just depends on the film because I had my rolls of film just left out since 2000-2003 and started to get dusty. I decided to take it in and get it developed, and some of the rolls haven't distorted any of the pictures whereas some of them were faded and some you could barely see the picture. It usually depends on the lighting and all that, like the person before had mentioned, but my rolls were all in the same conditions and they all turned out different. You just have to take them in and hope for the best. If you look at the pictures before you pay for it, then if the pictures didnt turn out the way you wanted, you dont have to pay for it! (just a thought)

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