I recently puchased a three-pack of expired film from the Impossible Project website. My first pack contained film for eight magenta monochrome pictures. Since this was not my first choice of film, I decided it would be a good starting point for a practice project, being the first time I would use a Polaroid camera. Because it was magenta monochrome, it meant that all of my photos were going to be pink and only pink, so a very limited spectrum was to be expected. My first photo came out great, well exposed and well framed, a great start! However, I found out very fast that in natural light, it is almost impossible to get a well exposed photograph with this film if you cannot adjust the exposure on your camera, which I can't. The pink colour meant that it was naturally going to be quite light anyway, but outside on a cloudy day, photos were almost impossible to take with a decent exposure. This may have been due to the expired film having a lower light tolerance, however being only one or two years out of date it seems unlikely.
Overall though, playing around with focus and exposure was a great learning experience and seeing that this colour is so niche for a project, I believe it was a good investment, if only for practice. Considering the expired film was so much cheaper than the in-date packs, it was well worth the money to be able to test the camera and the film as a whole, as well as still having two packs to play with from the set!
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