Expired Kodak Elite Chrome 200

[mbmoehl]

Hello

I've recently inherited my grandpa's Pentax collection and one of his camera's still has a roll of Kodak Elite Chrome 200 in it (8 of 24 frames exposed). I've decided to finish off the roll and have it developed. I just looked up this film and discovered it was discontinued in 2011, so i have no idea how long it has been sitting in the camera in his basement. My question is what am i likely to see once its developed? Am i wasting my time finishing the roll?

Thanks,

Mike

P.s. For those who will probably ask anyways, the camera with film in it is a Pentax P30t, but the collection as included a K1000 in decent working condition, an ME Super in beat to hell but working, minus the film speed indicator in the view finder (otherwise the meter seems to work), and a beat to hell ME that doesn't seem to work at all and the mirror is stuck in the up position, along with a strange assortment of lenses.

 

[jeffreythree]

I also found an old roll(Kodak Gold color negative) in one of my grandfather's cameras. It may be decent, it may have color shift, or it may not have much useable at all. It kind of depends on how it was stored, age, and luck. I thought mine was only a few years old, but after processing and talking to my mom he stopped shooting film about 10 years ago and she stored it in a hot, humid Houston garage for a few years. It was a crazy swirl of random colors with an occasional flower identifiable in the mix. In hind sight, I should of just processed it as black and white.

 

[mbmoehl]

There was a roll of Kodak Gold 200 in the K1000 as well that i removed. How does developing it in B&W help? Can that be done to slide film?

 

[Rudeofus]

Many E6 slide films have antihalation and/or yellow filter layers made out of colloidal silver. These layers normally get removed during bleaching&fixing, but B&W processing doesn't have a bleach step and leaves these intact, leaving you with very dense B&W negatives.

You can try to add 1 g/l KBr to E6 FD to bring down fog (which would show up as reduced Dmax) without causing too much of a speed loss. Since expired film tends to lose speed and contrast, you may also want to bring them back up a bit by adding an extra 15 to 30 seconds to E6 FD time.

This won't give you stellar slides, but at least scannable images.