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I have some Forte WT paper laying around unrefrigerated for about 4-5
years, I understand Forte doesnt last too long. How should I test it, or should I even bother? |
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In article .com,
"Joe" wrote: I have some Forte WT paper laying around unrefrigerated for about 4-5 years, I understand Forte doesnt last too long. How should I test it, or should I even bother? You should test it, - can be a relatively simple method. Take a single sheet develop it in developer without exposing it, stop, and fix it if it looks grey(er) than the white border of a print you made when the paper was fresh, its fogged. -- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918 greg_____photo(dot)com |
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Better test:
Place a piece in the fixer WITHOUT developing it, and run a pice through the developer and fixer, then compare them. G- Blank wrote: In article .com, "Joe" wrote: I have some Forte WT paper laying around unrefrigerated for about 4-5 years, I understand Forte doesnt last too long. How should I test it, or should I even bother? You should test it, - can be a relatively simple method. Take a single sheet develop it in developer without exposing it, stop, and fix it if it looks grey(er) than the white border of a print you made when the paper was fresh, its fogged. -- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918 greg_____photo(dot)com |
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G- Blank wrote: In article .com, "Joe" wrote: I have some Forte WT paper laying around unrefrigerated for about 4-5 years, I understand Forte doesnt last too long. How should I test it, or should I even bother? You should test it, - can be a relatively simple method. Take a single sheet develop it in developer without exposing it, stop, and fix it if it looks grey(er) than the white border of a print you made when the paper was fresh, its fogged. Add maybe benzotriazole (liquid Orthozite) to the developer to help cut through the fog. The paper should still be usable unless trying to exactly match a print before fogging. |
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G- Blank wrote: In article .com, "Joe" wrote: I have some Forte WT paper laying around unrefrigerated for about 4-5 years, I understand Forte doesnt last too long. How should I test it, or should I even bother? You should test it, - can be a relatively simple method. Take a single sheet develop it in developer without exposing it, stop, and fix it if it looks grey(er) than the white border of a print you made when the paper was fresh, its fogged. -- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918 greg_____photo(dot)com For some reason I though fog would show up better if there was some additional exposure to the test paper. At any rate, it seems to work pretty good. Makes me wish I'd stuck it in the frig one of the 50 times I've seen it laying there in the last few years, but I was under the impression that Forte goes south pretty fast. |
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Joe wrote: G- Blank wrote: In article .com, "Joe" wrote: I have some Forte WT paper laying around unrefrigerated for about 4-5 years, I understand Forte doesnt last too long. How should I test it, or should I even bother? You should test it, - can be a relatively simple method. Take a single sheet develop it in developer without exposing it, stop, and fix it if it looks grey(er) than the white border of a print you made when the paper was fresh, its fogged. -- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918 greg_____photo(dot)com For some reason I though fog would show up better if there was some additional exposure to the test paper. At any rate, it seems to work pretty good. Makes me wish I'd stuck it in the frig one of the 50 times I've seen it laying there in the last few years, but I was under the impression that Forte goes south pretty fast. Refrigeration wouldn't have prevented fogging. Fogging occurs due to two reasons: chemical and radiation. Refrigeration may slow down chemical fogging but I've had film that was frozen at -20 that still fogged... |
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Tom Phillips wrote:
Refrigeration wouldn't have prevented fogging. Fogging occurs due to two reasons: chemical and radiation. Refrigeration may slow down chemical fogging but I've had film that was frozen at -20 that still fogged... You mean you have not lined your refrigerator with 1 centimeter thick lead sheets to reduce the incident radiation? ;-) -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 07:10:00 up 18 days, 21:57, 4 users, load average: 4.25, 4.21, 4.12 |
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The high contrast end (3-4) quit on some Forte WT RC I have that's less than
8 years old. The low end (2-1) still works but it's basically been relegated to contact sheet duty. The fiber paper from about the same period still works great. I thought they were the same emulsion but one is somewhat faster than the other (I forget which is which) so I guess not. Natural Light Black and White Photography http://mysite.verizon.net/vze76ane/ -George- "Joe" wrote in message oups.com... I have some Forte WT paper laying around unrefrigerated for about 4-5 years, I understand Forte doesnt last too long. How should I test it, or should I even bother? |
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Jean-David Beyer wrote: Tom Phillips wrote: Refrigeration wouldn't have prevented fogging. Fogging occurs due to two reasons: chemical and radiation. Refrigeration may slow down chemical fogging but I've had film that was frozen at -20 that still fogged... You mean you have not lined your refrigerator with 1 centimeter thick lead sheets to reduce the incident radiation? ;-) Guess I'm just an irradiated kind of guy :^) I never really intend to store film that long (10+ years), but I guess many do... |
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