Ross Bay Sunset
I was wishing I had a different camera with me when I came on this sunset.
So I took just one shot with the point and shoot, and backed it up with my camera phone.
In the end, the Olympus XA2 handled it just fine – better than I expected.
Furthermore, the colour shift from the expired Kodak Gold 200 was not a big deal for this shot – must have been all the yellows over riding the green somehow.
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Olympus XA2, ISO200, Kodak Gold 200 expired in 1990s
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burnt embers 
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Before I got my first digital camera, I was scanning film with a primitive printer/scanner and read that most pros that shot slide film were switching to color negative film because of its greater latitude. I think your out-of-date film will be fine for a long time, especially if it was stored frozen before you bought it. Also, in a scene like this, a little color shift would be hardly noticeable. In portrait photography, the color shift would be evident, but still correctable. This camer/film combination seems to be serving you well.
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Hi Ken. The film was kept in a cool dark closet, but most of it that I have used has not issues at all. And that camera serves me very well. It is small enough for a pocket, so I always have it along now. It or the XA. I like shooting colour because it can convert well to black and white with the use of LR filters. I love the tones/hues of slide film, but it is too expensive.
I recently bought a 6×4.5 camera and will get the test rolls back today – they too are expired film which came in a bag of 35mm film that I bought in a second hand store for about 50 cents a roll. I can hardly wait to see how it performs, it is a very fine camera, but the total opposite to a pocket camera. My arms hurt after walking around with it for a while. Future posts will explore those experiments I have no doubt.
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