"Frank Pittel" wrote in
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jay wrote:
: On Mar 2, 1:29??pm, Frank Pittel
wrote:
: Joe Makowiec wrote:
:
: : On 25 Feb 2011 in rec.photo.darkroom, Frank Pittel
wrote:
:
: : I wish there some good books about prints and
developers for them!
:
: : Ansel Adams, 'The Print'?
:
:
:http://www.amazon.com/Print-Ansel-Ad.../dp/0821221876
:
: A very good book and I enjoyed reading the copy I
have. I'm thinking more in
: terms of books like the Film Developers Cookbook and
Modern Photographic
: Processing. Although most of what's in Modern
Photographic Processing applies
: to paper as well as film.
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: Keep working dumbo needs the money

: Hello Frank
: Would I be out of line if I asked; what is the
"development project"?
: I mean where are these old films from. If this
information is
: condfiential,
: I'll understand. Just caught my curiosity.
: (Sorry for any spelling mistakes. My Open Office word
may have been
: killed by Microsoft Office. I'll find out tomorow when
my computer
: tech
: guy arrives. But for the moment I have no Open Office
programs
: working.)
: Jay Drew

Not sure how much I can give away in terms of detail but
someone I
know bought a large number of rolls of MF that was exposed
during the
60s and 70s. The project is to develop the film and end up
with
printable negatives. :-)
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The problem here is to preserve the latent image. Most
anti-fog agents tend to destroy the latent image, just what
you _don't_ want. There are approaches to developing film
with old images. An outfit called Film Rescue has had
considerable success but is using a propritary method. I
don't know what they do but evidently it works. I have heard
that one approach is to use very high contrast developers,
like process developers, at very low temperatures. While
hydroquinone becomes inactive below about 55F in ordinary
developers it does not in highly alkaline solutions like
process developers. I have no experience with this and can't
now remember the source but I think it was a reliable one.
If the film has potentially valuable images I suggest
contacting Film Rescue and not experimenting on them.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA