Hi, I processed some 20 year old Plus X for a friend of mine a couple of years ago.... about 4 rolls. The images were all usable. (though nothing spectacular)
For what it's worth, I used Ilfosol-S, which lists two of the ingredients as phenyl-somethings (I don't want to spell it all out....ick) and another as hydroquinone. Does this make it a phenidone developer? I don't remember the times, but it seems as if I leaned towards extending development and used a more dilute solution. Thanks, William in Utah. Malcolm Smith wrote: > > Is there really hope with processing very old film? It's great to hear there > may be . I wish I had seen a post like this a couple of months back, as a > friend binned a film which had been in a camera for about 14 years. I > suggested he had done the best thing - I would like to be proven wrong. > > How do the professional processors here think about it? Has anyone any > stories about people coming in with old film to be developed? > > A final thought - does anyone have any undeveloped film that should be > processed soon! > > I hope, as I have said before that Paul Ewins film comes out OK. > > Malcolm > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William Robb > Sent: 09 December 2001 16:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Processing 20+ year old film > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Ewins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 5:44 AM > Subject: Processing 20+ year old film > > > Hi folks, > > I recently had a look at my mother's old box > brownie, and > > discovered that it still had a film in it. It is Kodak > Verichrome Pan, in > > 620 format of course. I would think it would be between 20 - > 25 years old. > > For the cost of a bit of developer and fixer I may as well > have a go at > > developing it. > > Any ideas on how? Should I go longer or shorter? Colder or > hotter than > > normal? I'll be using ID 11. > > The problem you are going to run into is increased base fog. You > will probably want to add an anti fog agent, benzotriazole is > the classic anti-fog agent. Phenidone is also an anti fogging > agent, so any developer with it in the formulae will have > anti-fogging characteristics. > ID-11 is a classic metol/hydroquinone formulation, but does not > use phenidone in the formula. > > The only developer I know for sure that does is Bromophen, which > is nominally a paper developer. > I can be used as a film developer, but it isn't easy. > > If you don't want to goof around with a bunch of chemistry, soup > it in cool ID-11, with a 1:1 dilution at 18º for 9 minutes. > Have fun > William Robb > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
