[pure-silver] Re: Plenachrome film development

  • From: <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:57:28 -0700

Janet   You may not know what is on this film, it could be nothing, but it also could be a family heirloom.  Now it is a bit expensive, but to teach that the service and techniques are available you might want to think about Film Rescue.  www.filmrescue.com  On a student's budget it might be tight, but its only a single roll.  IF anyone can get anything off that roll of film, I would bet from their reputation its them.  Frankly you might be surprised.

I once had a roll of film when I first started more seriously in photography fall out of a pocket somewhere.  It rode around in boxes, stored in unairconditioned storage rooms in the south and un heated storage rooms in the north.  The roll of film showed up again 10 years later, which I processed then to find it was a roll I had taken on the first date with the now wife.


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Subject: [pure-silver] Plenachrome film development
From: janet ness <nessj@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, February 02, 2011 9:20 pm
To: pure-silver <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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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