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,

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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.


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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
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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,

--
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cravdraa_at-yahoo_dot-com
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"Duncan" wrote in message
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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? ;-)

"Duncan" wrote in message
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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.

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"Duncan" wrote in message
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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.

Ken Hart spake thus:

"Harry Stottle" wrote in message
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"Duncan" wrote in message
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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.


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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.

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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.

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.

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