[pure-silver] Re: Plenachrome film development
- From: Snoopy <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:12:02 +0100
Dear Janet,
I have successfully developed 60 year old film in Rodinal, 1+20 about
15-18 minutes IIRC. I figured that since the film is 60 yrs old and the
Rodinal recipe about 140 yrs. old, it should kind of fit...
Images came out quite well, but it was fairly grainy. But the folks I
did this for (they found Grandpas old camera in a drawer in the
attic...) There was some light leakage along the sides, where light
seeped into the camera. But there was no fogging otherwise.
YOu will have a devil of a time geting it onto the spool, those films
are wound tightly for a long time...however do not pre-rinse, lest the
emulsion comes off before the developer can do its trick.
Good luck!
Love
Snoopy
On 02/03/2011 05:20 AM, janet ness 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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