This evening I developed a roll of expired Ferrania Solaris 100 film, which I bought on eBay. It was ideal for testing because it had only 12 frames, which I could shoot in a single day—a 36-frame roll can take months. The flowers planted by my mother and me were perfect photo subjects, as was the fruit bowl.
These images are decent for a film expired in 2008 and developed with one-year-old chemicals. But I find them a little over-exposed, probably a consequence of using longer shutter speeds for exposure readings that didn’t fit nicely on the Minolta X300 (e.g., 1/10 second exposure reading set to 1/8 second on camera).
The same problem is present in some of the photos below, from another roll developed a couple of weeks ago. My Sekonic lightmeter is accurate, as tested with a Nikon DSLR, so I’m left wondering whether the camera has a little shutter drag.
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