If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Old film refridged 8 years
Hello all, pertinent to the recent thread "expired film" in rec.photo.equipment.35mm I have several rolls of 120/220 I shot in '97 - '99, I have kept it all refridged in a lead lined travel film bag since then, and only recently put it in the freezer! Need to know, how should it be developed? Pushed or pulled? Special or concentrated chemicals? What damage has been done? Please reply, -- })))* Giant_Alex cravdraa_at-yahoo_dot-com not my site: http://www.e-sword.net/ |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Old film refridged 8 years
AAvK spake thus:
I have several rolls of 120/220 I shot in '97 - '99, I have kept it all refridged in a lead lined travel film bag since then, and only recently put it in the freezer! Need to know, how should it be developed? Pushed or pulled? Special or concentrated chemicals? What damage has been done? My guess is probably nothing, at least nothing significant. Not long ago I developed several rolls of film that had been exposed about 25 years ago, and they were fine for the most part. I used normal devlopment. -- Just as McDonald's is where you go when you're hungry but don't really care about the quality of your food, Wikipedia is where you go when you're curious but don't really care about the quality of your knowledge. - Matthew White's WikiWatch (http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/wikiwoo.htm) |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Old film refridged 8 years
It's the condensation that will do more damage IMO.
Take one roll and defrost 24 hours in the fridge. Place in cold room for at least 4 hours and then bring into a cool room to warm up to room temp. Take some test shops and process normally. You'd be able to check from that what handling is necessary as each batch and storage environment will change for each person. When I last found some buried freeze stock I found it lost about a stop and a half. Duncan "AAvK" wrote in message ... Hello all, pertinent to the recent thread "expired film" in rec.photo.equipment.35mm I have several rolls of 120/220 I shot in '97 - '99, I have kept it all refridged in a lead lined travel film bag since then, and only recently put it in the freezer! Need to know, how should it be developed? Pushed or pulled? Special or concentrated chemicals? What damage has been done? Please reply, -- })))* Giant_Alex cravdraa_at-yahoo_dot-com not my site: http://www.e-sword.net/ |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Old film refridged 8 years
"Duncan" wrote in message ... It's the condensation that will do more damage IMO. Take one roll and defrost 24 hours in the fridge. Place in cold room for at least 4 hours and then bring into a cool room to warm up to room temp. Take some test shops and process normally. Wouldn't that give double exposure? ;-) |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Old film refridged 8 years
"Duncan" wrote in message ... It's the condensation that will do more damage IMO. Take one roll and defrost 24 hours in the fridge. Place in cold room for at least 4 hours and then bring into a cool room to warm up to room temp. ??? Put them in a plasticbag and leave them in roomtempertaure,for some hours, all the condensation will happen on the bag. |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Old film refridged 8 years
"Harry Stottle" wrote in message reenews.net... "Duncan" wrote in message ... It's the condensation that will do more damage IMO. Take one roll and defrost 24 hours in the fridge. Place in cold room for at least 4 hours and then bring into a cool room to warm up to room temp. Take some test shops and process normally. Wouldn't that give double exposure? ;-) Just a guess that "test shops" is not "test shots" but "test chops"; that is, cut a roll into pieces and process each piece differently. |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Old film refridged 8 years
Ken Hart spake thus:
"Harry Stottle" wrote in message reenews.net... "Duncan" wrote in message ... It's the condensation that will do more damage IMO. Take one roll and defrost 24 hours in the fridge. Place in cold room for at least 4 hours and then bring into a cool room to warm up to room temp. Take some test shops and process normally. Wouldn't that give double exposure? ;-) Just a guess that "test shops" is not "test shots" but "test chops"; that is, cut a roll into pieces and process each piece differently. Which would be totally unnecessary, given the age of the latent image, assuming it has been stored as the OP described for most of that time. Just develop normally. -- Just as McDonald's is where you go when you're hungry but don't really care about the quality of your food, Wikipedia is where you go when you're curious but don't really care about the quality of your knowledge. - Matthew White's WikiWatch (http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/wikiwoo.htm) |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
Old film refridged 8 years
Duncan wrote:
It's the condensation that will do more damage IMO. Take one roll and defrost 24 hours in the fridge. Place in cold room for at least 4 hours and then bring into a cool room to warm up to room temp. Take some test shops and process normally. He already exposed the film back in 1997. He just wants to know if he's got to do anything special now to process them. He should be ok if he skips the test "shops" and just processes the film normally. |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
Old film refridged 8 years
David Nebenzahl wrote: Just as McDonald's is where you go when you're hungry but don't really care about the quality of your food, Wikipedia is where you go when you're curious but don't really care about the quality of your knowledge. http://creepingmeatball.blogspot.com...rror-rate.html And beyond that I've noticed that quality and richness of Wiki articles has continued to grow since the study last year. |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
Old film refridged 8 years
AAvK wrote: Hello all, pertinent to the recent thread "expired film" in rec.photo.equipment.35mm I have several rolls of 120/220 I shot in '97 - '99, I have kept it all refridged in a lead lined travel film bag since then, and only recently put it in the freezer! Need to know, how should it be developed? Pushed or pulled? Special or concentrated chemicals? What damage has been done? The lead bag will do nothing against alpha particles that fly through lead as if empty space. So some fogging of the film may occur. If a "low-ish" speed film (50/100) then possibly not so bad. I woud process normally and not be surprised that they are more than acceptable (assuming that they were well exposed to begin with, of course...) Cheers, Alan |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Old film refridged 8 years | AAvK | In The Darkroom | 68 | January 13th 07 07:42 AM |
Where will B&W be in 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 .... years | Nicholas O. Lindan | Large Format Photography Equipment | 1036 | March 30th 05 08:37 AM |
Any APS film in 5 years ?.. | Aymeric Peyret | APS Photographic Equipment | 2 | October 8th 04 03:09 AM |
Four years old HP5+ (Please Help) | David Foy | Film & Labs | 0 | September 30th 03 01:26 AM |