[pure-silver] Re: how old is too old?
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:22:07 -0700
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From: "Tim Daneliuk" <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 7:06 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: how old is too old?
Richard Knoppow wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shannon Stoney"
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To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 3:28 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] how old is too old?
I have some HP5+ that goes back to 2005. I've kept it in
a cool dry
place. Is it too old? Might it be slower or faster or
what?
--shannon
Four years is not very old. High speed film tends to
become foggy
faster than slow film but HP-5 should still be pretty
much like new. I
would use it normally but not for applications requiring
pushing.
A slight uniform fog has little or no effect other
than to lower
effective speed a little since it adds arithmetically to
all densities.
Other answer, you have to shoot some to find out if
its still OK.
A long time ago I bought a couple of bricks of
Verichrome Pan. I
kept them in the refrigerator but not the freezer. I used
the last roll
when it was ten years beyond the expiration date. It had
become somewhat
foggy but still made good printable negatives. A faster
film would
probably not have lasted that long.
--
Ahhhhh Verichrome - verily I miss thee (It's "Talk Like
Shakespeare Day" here).
The subject line is really the premise of the old radio
soap opera _The Romance of Helen Trent_, "The story that
asks the question: can a woman find romance at 35 and...
beyond?"
I am giving away MY age here...
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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