Should we use expired film or it's garbage ?

I like to shoot 127 film. I've got a collection of 4x4 TLRs and love shooting them. I can get fresh HP5 in the Ilford "ULF" sale but color has been hard to find. Some years back I bought several 100-foot rolls of 46mm (that's the correct width for 127) color stock that was used by a portrait photographer in a special camera that shot super-wide frames and had a motor drive, for school portrait sessions. I'm still shooting that film and I get generally good results, especially from a roll of Agfa XPS 160 film that expired in 2001.

retina_restoration said:

They are opportunistic parasites, IMO.

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if people buy-it, like-it and buy-more, how is person an opportunistic parasite? just giving someone what-they-want, what-they-expect makes person a opportunistic parasite?
are people who hard-core bad-poured all their wet collodion plates during the 2000s collodionsilver rush parasites too?

Not a lot of my frozen film [Velvia, Provia] stock is expired, but I know some certainly is.
No big deal. If you scan-to-web or scan-to-print, it is easy to correct obvious anomalies in post, maybe not so easy in the darkroom, but it is not a hang-up or disincentive whenever images are being prep'd for print or web and correction, including post-scan step compensation, is required.

If I had to pay new-film prices to learn how to shoot LF, I wouldn't have dived hard into LF. Wait a minute, if I had to pay new-film prices to figure out home development, I wouldn't have done that either. And yes, Panatomic X rocks (I have 1 box of 8x10 PanX I'm saving for a special occasion...). Verichrome Pan is pretty reliable too, if it's newer than 1979 or so.