Ave Maria, an end to the Italian photographs

Today’s is the last of my photos from the trip to Italy I took over two months ago now. It’s quite a nice one to go out on though. I’d seen this church while walking around the town with my wife, but it was the next street over so I didn’t get chance to get close. On the last full day of the trip though I went for a walk while my wife sat beside the pool reading her book, so took the opportunity to grab a picture.

Over the past few days I’ve been scanning a roll of expired Kodak Elite Chrome that I shot while visiting this year’s Sheffield Steam Rally. I used my Canon Sure Shot Ace and all the pictures are noticeably under-exposed. I never overexpose slide film as it tends to retain its limited exposure latitude, even if it’s lost some of it’s colour tonality, and have generally had well exposed results when shooting other expired E6 emulsions. So in this case I don’t know if it’s the film (it did expire over 20 years ago!), or the camera’s metering – although I’ve had the Ace a few years, this was only the second time I’ve used it, although there were no issues with underexposure previously.

Whatever the case, it will make a good subject for a new Expiry Files post, especially given I haven’t done one of those for ages, despite promising to try and do more of them.

Olympus Trip 35 & Fujifilm 200. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Taken 7 May 2023.