Is there really hope with processing very old film? It's great to hear there may be . I wish I had seen a post like this a couple of months back, as a friend binned a film which had been in a camera for about 14 years. I suggested he had done the best thing - I would like to be proven wrong.
How do the professional processors here think about it? Has anyone any stories about people coming in with old film to be developed? A final thought - does anyone have any undeveloped film that should be processed soon! I hope, as I have said before that Paul Ewins film comes out OK. Malcolm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William Robb Sent: 09 December 2001 16:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Processing 20+ year old film ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Ewins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 5:44 AM Subject: Processing 20+ year old film > Hi folks, > I recently had a look at my mother's old box brownie, and > discovered that it still had a film in it. It is Kodak Verichrome Pan, in > 620 format of course. I would think it would be between 20 - 25 years old. > For the cost of a bit of developer and fixer I may as well have a go at > developing it. > Any ideas on how? Should I go longer or shorter? Colder or hotter than > normal? I'll be using ID 11. The problem you are going to run into is increased base fog. You will probably want to add an anti fog agent, benzotriazole is the classic anti-fog agent. Phenidone is also an anti fogging agent, so any developer with it in the formulae will have anti-fogging characteristics. ID-11 is a classic metol/hydroquinone formulation, but does not use phenidone in the formula. The only developer I know for sure that does is Bromophen, which is nominally a paper developer. I can be used as a film developer, but it isn't easy. If you don't want to goof around with a bunch of chemistry, soup it in cool ID-11, with a 1:1 dilution at 18� for 9 minutes. Have fun William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
