As I said in the previous post about Polaroid Blue Film, December 2025 seemed like the best time to finish off my refrigerator hoard of 2008-expired packfilm, including my last two packages of Sepia.
I have been chipping away at my supply over the years, with pleasing results. It had worked very well in 2010.
I enjoyed it for architecture especially (I fondly recall taking my father through areas that had been wholly rebuilt after he’d left the City on this photo walk…).
It was gorgeous in 2011.
and
but in the photosets I can’t find, there were also multiple days of largely blank prints where the chemistry pods were too dry to spread down the surface of the exposed paper. If that was true around 2015, the odds of success in 2025 were low!
Nevertheless, I decided to try. (Except with the swollen filmpack: I opened it outside, and the contents are all glued together. Ick.)
Yes, this happened… I was able to get some successful frames, too.
I’m glad I took it out, before it dried up completely. It was an adventure worth having.