Expired Film 66 for Experimental Style

Fujifilm X-Trans 4 film simulation for an Expired Film look with Bleach Bypass

Let’s shoot images on that film you found in a bargain store. It expired years ago, and the colours will be washed out and tinted. It’s a crazy effect, but a fun aesthetic for sunny days and a faded retro mood.

I’ve always found the unexpected results from expired film quite appealing. Tones tend to fade and images have a colour cast, either green, pink or purple. Sometimes there are light leaks and other blemishes, which all add to the character.

Although it will be something of a novelty, I wanted to make an expired film recipe to see just how crazy a straight-out-of-camera image can be. So here we have it, based on Eterna Bleach Bypass for washed out colours with a pink purple expired film tint.

Expired Film 66 Film Recipe

• Simulation: Eterna Bleach Bypass
• Grain Effect: Weak, Large
• Colour Chrome Effect: Weak
• Colour Chrome Blue: Strong (IV) / Weak (V)
• White Balance: Shade
• WB Shift: +6 Red, +6 Blue
• Dynamic Range: DR200
• Highlights: -2
• Shadows: -2
• Colour: -2
• Sharpness: -1
• ISO Noise Reduction: -4
• Clarity: 0 (go to -5, or use a mist filter for extra effect)
• EV compensation: +1 stop for the burned out look

Let’s get creative and shoot expired! Some expired film tones are quite extreme, but if you want something a bit less crazy, you could also try …

• Decade Print – with an aged photograph look
• Aerocolor Lomo – faded green toned expired film
• Venice Expired – vintage slide style, by Justin Arkinson
• Expired Slide – with bold pink tones, from FujiXWeekly
• Old Kodak – an aged Kodak style, from FujiXWeekly