On Feb 21, 3:44 am, (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) wrote:
I know this borders on the ridiculous. Someone advertised an APS camera
for sale on a local mailing list, and this brought back memories. I have
several APS cameras all bought for nearly nothing years ago and a lot of
C-41 APS film, all bought out of date and they sat at room temperature
for 3-4 years.

Nothing is special about them, they were cheap cameras and are not in
collectable condition. The film boxes are slightly shopworn, so they won't
end up in a museum or on a collector's shelf.

The idea of having a small camera I don't care if it survives being carried
around has a lot of attraction. Half of the year it is dry and dusty.
Sand and dust can easily kill a camera and so can other things, like being
sat on, etc. One of my kids sat on a bag I carry around and broke a
Palm Pilot. :-(

Therefore I ask if I can develop the film at home using black and white
chemicals. I assume I have to "crack" the casettes, will the film fit on
a 35mm reel? If not, can I adjust a Paterson reel to fit it?

Can the film itself be developed in Black and White chemicals, for example
Rodinal?

Any suggestions, pointers to information, etc would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Geoff.
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The only issue is getting the film out of the canister, and some way
of handling it in the chemistry, since it won't fit 35mm reels.

I've run a few rolls of C41 film though black and white chemistry
just to see what happened. My best results were 6 minutes in
HC-110(B). Decent contrast, but the orange masking layer is
still there.

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