[pure-silver] Re: Plenachrome film development
- From: richard lahrson <gtripspud@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:07:38 -0800
Hi! If this film as old as it is has the word 'chrome'
in its name, isn't it a transparency film?
Best, Rich
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:57 AM, <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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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