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Hello, I am coming up to a decent sized project and I need to test my store of expired stock. I am intending on taking a few feet from each roll, exposing them in a uniform way, sealing them, and send them off to be processed. My big question is: how do I expose them all uniformly? Do I sit the lengths on a table in a dark room and let off a camera flash? Would that over expose the high ASA stock? The lab I use is a small one and I think they do not have facilities or space to do such a test. Normally I shoot 100 feet as a test and send it off to discern the condition of the stock I have remaining, but I have around 13 different film stocks and I suspect a few of them. I also accept there will be quality of image issues, but as the project is not a big budget one, we are happy to work with what we have. Any thoughts would be helpful... Cheers, gareth

Some stock tests that might be of interest for yet another short film I'm shooting. I shot Kodak 5230 and 5219, with G and B series Anamorphics with both flashing and pull processing. http://stephenmurphydop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/abdullah-stock-tests.html