10-yr old exposed color film

[chendox]

I love the art of analog photography and am a newbie. I found some 10+ year old Kodacolor 100 CZ and GA 35mm roles in my closet (room temperature). Each roll has been exposed (though less than the full 36 exposures per roll). Do you think I will still be able to develop these with decent results? Thanks!

 

[Boggy1]

Creepily, I bought an old camera which had a role of Kodacolor in it, I had no idea how old it was, but I decided to develop it anyway (620 spools are always useful). I got some decent results- from looking at their clothes, it looked like the roll was from the 80's!
I say try it and see what happens, some forgotten memories might come out.

 

[srs5694]

Results are likely to be fair to poor, but you should get something. Some people prefer developing old film, even old color film, as B&W, often using something like Rodinal 1+100 in a stand or semi-stand procedure (with minimal agitation and extended development time). This procedure is supposed to help produce consistent results when you're not sure of the proper development time because it's mystery film or because its age might affect optimum development. I've never done this myself, though; I'm just passing on what I've read.

If you do it with a regular C-41 process, you'll probably get color, but it may be foggy and/or the colors may have shifted. Printing in a conventional way might enable at least some correction for this, and scanning the negative might enable you to do a little better, if proper color rendition is important.