[pure-silver] Re: Plenachrome film development
- From: "pdesmidt tds.net" <pdesmidt@xxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 23:53:41 -0600
It's true that the Benzotriazole might cut some fog, but restrainers in film
developers are pretty touchy. Without being able to test various
procedures, developing with regular Xtol, with say 25% greater time, might
be a good thing to try, but I'm curious about other recommendations.
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:20 PM, janet ness <nessj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a student in my darkroom class who will be bringing in to develop a
> roll of Plenachrome 120 film that was in an old box camera he just
> purchased. Since this film is 50 years old or more, I expect it is fogged.
> Would it help to add some Benzotriazole solution? I have some on hand and
> the container says that it is used for paper, but could it help the film?
> We have no idea how long to develop the film in Xtol, but I expect we can't
> overdevelop it. We don't expect this film will yield much, but what the
> heck, we have to try.
>
> Janet Ness
>
>
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