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A bit of advice please?
Hello all,
I have come into a roll of 620 film from an Ansco camera that a friend found in a box full of photo equipment that he bought from an estate. It's a small town, so he knows the family related to the estate, and we thought we would try to retrieve the negatives for the family. They don't know that the camera was loaded and the film exposed, so if we fail only "we" will be disappointed, not the family. We realise that there is a very poor chance of this given the date on the film, but.....nothing ventured eh? Here's the details that I know of so far: 1) Film has no brand name 2) has printed on it "620" " 1173/CAN/14 3) recommends development at "Triple Print Film Labs, Toronto Ont. 4) Camera was an Ansco, very basic model with two aperture settings (sun & shade), two shutter settings (auto & manual) and one filter (yellow) built in. I assume from the above that the film was either made in 1973 or would be stale dated in 1973. I would also guess that it would be fairly slow speed, 100 or less, probably less? I have available a basic B&W darkroom (bathroom) with fixer, stop and either Rodinal or "mix my own" Adams DD23. Because I don't know the speed, and because I've heard that the Adams divided formula is quite tolerant of development time/temp, exposure, speed etc, that was going to be my choice, but I'm open to suggestions that don't include buying anything new in the way of chemicals thank you in advance for any suggestions/advice. cheers -- regards from :: John Bartley 43 Norway Spruce Street Stittsville, Ontario Canada, K2S1P5 ( If you slow down it takes longer - does that apply to life also?) |
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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 14:30:09 -0400, John Bartley
wrote: I have available a basic B&W darkroom (bathroom) with fixer, stop and either Rodinal or "mix my own" Adams DD23. Because I don't know the speed, and because I've heard that the Adams divided formula is quite tolerant of development time/temp, exposure, speed etc, that was going to be my choice, but I'm open to suggestions that don't include buying anything new in the way of chemicals thank you in advance for any suggestions/advice. Consider a snip test and use that D-23 straight for about 10 minutes at 70F. Regards, John S. Douglas, Photographer - http://www.puresilver.org Vote "No! for the status quo. Vote 3rd party !! |
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John Bartley wrote:
thank you in advance for any suggestions/advice. A big thank you to John and Mike for the responses. I was going to try Johns "snip" test, but first I thought I'd have a quicky peek at the emulsion, so I unrolled it a bit, just far enough to see that it's a sort of purple/red colour, so I guess it's a colour film. I'll follow up on the film recovery leads that Mike passed along and see what happens. cheers eh? -- regards from :: John Bartley 43 Norway Spruce Street Stittsville, Ontario Canada, K2S1P5 ( If you slow down it takes longer - does that apply to life also?) |
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 08:32:51 -0600, "Mike King"
wrote: Google's first hit was for Rocky Mountain Film Lab which still processes this stuff, and I'll bet Film Rescue does it too. http://www.rockymountainfilm.com/c22.htm or -- Man ! I'm slipping ! Good catch Mike ! Regards, John S. Douglas, Photographer - http://www.puresilver.org Vote "No! for the status quo. Vote 3rd party !! |
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