This outdated film's colors remain good, but it has lost contrast and sensitivity, so it makes the best images in full sun. To snap this image into life, I used paint.net, a free image-editing program to increase contrast, but nothing more was required. I did not need to adjust or modify colors.

The image of the sign, above, has no detail in the brightly-lit white area. This is glare from the brilliant sunshine that day. The benefit of the bright sunshine is that I could capture good shadow detail on this long-outdated film, despite its loss of speed and contrast.

Photographed with a Minolta 110 Zoom Mark II SLR camera. It is one of several high-quality cameras with excellent optics and auto-exposure that use 110 film.

110 film enlarges well up to snapshot size, but grain becomes obvious at 5x7 inches and above.

This outdated film was developed at a commercial lab and scanned on an Epson scanner. The negative showed significant deterioration due to age. The image was covered by a strong blue cast and was unprintable.

The deteriorated image was brought back to life with a free, downloadable Windows image-processing program (paint.net). As you can see, it is nothing like the quality of fresh film, but it is still useful.

This deteriorated film must be exposed in bright sunlight. Images taken in shadow almost always have too little detail to be useful, and colors are faded. Images taken in bright light have good image detail and colors that can be enhanced with an image-editing program.