So old camera should use old film. It makes a lot of sense, right? For my 100 years old Lego Instant Camera, I gonna use some “really old film” – Fuji Instax Mini film expired in Mar 2014. Merely from the package you can see it looks quite old school. It is given by my old friend Clarice in Singapore. I asked around my experienced Instax friends and no one ever used films that expired four years ago. Four years don’t seem like a lot but it is indeed a long time for Instax film. There are chance that the film ink pack may dry out and explode when the roller pressed the pack.

Old film expired on March 2014

So here is the results. I’m surprised that it is still working properly. It is interesting to see the colour of the picture looks very old. My camera lens was produced at 1913 and hence it has no modern day coating. Therefore the colour was quite vintage in normal film to start with. In this expired film the vintage feeling compounded. The colour tone and saturation look very different. It appears like these pictures were taken in the 1970s.

Cosplay with Lego camera

There was also an interesting incidence. I saw a cosplayer and she was doing some shooting in the park. I introduced myself and did a shooting with this sci-fi cosplayer with my surreal Lego Instant Camera. She was impressed by the picture. I think it was probably added a new dimension for cosplay – this is cosplay x old film cameras x Lego.

The following is a comparison of a normal film and an expired film. The feeling is completely different. While the left (normal film) shows the vivid colour of the rose, the right (expired film) seems like peeking into a window that connected to the past.

Normal film

Expired film