anyone use out of date velvia?

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I recently shot a box of our of date velvia. It went out of date on the 12/08 so it should in theory be ok still one should think.

After sending the exposed films off at the weekend, i got them back today and took a look when i got in from work. From the batch i have nothing thats useable!! its so frustrating, i had made some nice exposures ect, only for them to be ruined by the film shifting in colour to orange/red.

What im interested to know, is this a common thing with out of date velvia, or could it prehaps be a mistake on the part of the company who developed them?

Needless to say its back to the drawing board and some revisited locations for this one!
 
I've used it without problems - ad older than yours too. Where was it stored, in the fridge?
 
Sounds very wrong to me. Can you post up a quick snap of a sheet on the lightbox for us to take a peek at?

Apart from seeing if the colour cast looks consistent over the whole image, I'd be interested to see how the identity markings on the rebate have come out too.
 
yep the whole sheet is orangey/red.

I didnt think it could be right, and its been stored in the freezer.
Ill get an image sorted in a few mins for you all
 
urm it's a suggestion but it may be that you put the film in the dark slide back to front - when that happens the film comes out orangey/red. . . .I've done it myself, even with Velvia!
 
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Theres the sheet. I hadnt thought of that, it could possibly be that i have, im not great at loading the film in yet!

I dunno if you can see the photo but i cant! Its in my gallery otherwise
 
Im suspecting myself now that you were right joodles
 
yeah, I'm thinking that's what happened! I too am not too great at loading film-my memory is poor and the directions never make sense, lol! Great composition on the shot ***!
 
Yeh i guess thats where i went wrong, I did have the notches in the top right hand corner! Thanks for the comments about the composition though, apart from its then wrong way round!! lol, that a hard lesson learnt! thanks joodles
 
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