Reply to Buying 16mm film off Ebay on Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:41:00 GMT

fgadmin — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:41:00 GMT

dangus — 12 years ago(April 23, 2013 04:20 PM)

A wild guess is that "microfilm" would have fine grain and low speed, so it might only be suitable for movies in bright daylight conditions.
As for age I stumbled across an undeveloped but exposed roll of film that was about 25 years old. When developed, the unexposed parts were grey rather than clear, but the images were there.
If you're making art films where defects and surprises are good things, then using ancient stock of unknown condition makes sense. (I seem to remember reading about some filmmaker deliberately processing colour film using black and white chemistry and getting "interesting" effects.)
And, yes, I'm sure there's a forum somewhere that is more suitable than this.