grainy pictures

[Jakefreese]

I just got back 5 rolls of film from developing and all there were 4 rolls of kodak gold 400iso and one roll of 400bw. All the color film come back very grainy. the bw come back looking good, but all the color not so. I thought it was all underexposed but the film is a few years old. It had been stored in the house but not in the fridge or freezer. The BW film was not as old as the color. I would post the pics but it will not let me yet!

 

[dxqcanada]

Color dyes in the film degrade quickly. Optimum time is the expiry date.
Graininess can alo be caused by over/under exposure.

If you had a real B&W film, then it has no dyes ... just silver emulsion, so it would survive longer.

 

[Jakefreese]

the bw film I have is the bw400cn c41 kodak film. Well I guess I will trash the rest of that old film. I bought some film at walmart this weekend, hopefully it is fresh.

What I got this weekend is showing an develop by date of 9/2012

 

[dxqcanada]

Ah ... Kodak 400CN is a dye based B&W film (though all films have silver).

Look at the negatives ... it will provide more info than looking at the prints.

 

[Jakefreese]

I have not gotten the negatives back yet, I just have the pics on snapfish. I should have them back sometime next week. After my prepaid runs out with them I am going to Arlington camera to have it done $2 less a roll!

 

[ann]

it would help to see the images, but color does not have as much exposure range and they could be underexposed which as you mentioned would increase the grain pattern , along with the age and how the film has been stored.

 

[Jakefreese]

ok, I have gone through the pics and it looks like all the ones that are grainy are the ones that are definately under exposed, bad lighting, a few that I was trying to get the sunset and did not come out right. There is one roll that everything looked like it had a blue filter on it. I guess that is from the red dye in the film degrading. The film had been stored inside the house the whole time 65-85 deg F I also had one roll that has a line through about the middle of every picture also, of course there are a couple shots I like out of that roll I hope I can photoshop it out.

I need to get the pics uploaded to one of the hosting places then I will put them up