[pure-silver] Re: old Kodak Verichrome Pan
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 09:04:02 -0800
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From: "Janet Cull" <jcull@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:29 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] old Kodak Verichrome Pan
I found and shot a roll of old Kodak Verichrome Pan film.
There are no suggested developing times inside the box,
like with others. (This is a b&w film, isn't it? Uh
oh... does the "chrome" mean slide? I hope not.)
I can't find it on the Massive Dev. chart or at Phototec.
Can anyone help me out? Thanks so much.
Janet
The last I looked the Verichrome Pan data sheet was
still on the Kodak web site. I'll send it to you if you
can't find it.
The original Verichrome dated from the early 1930s. It
was an orthochromatic film with improved green sensitivity
which replaced the former Kodak box camera film called Kodak
NC Film (for non curling). The name Verichrome derives from
"true color" suggesting its improved rendition of color in
gray tones. Of course Kodak had panchromatic films at the
time but ortho film was typically sold to amateurs because
it had better performance with the lenses in box cameras
which were not usually corrected for color and because it
could be processed by inspection under a red safelight. In
about 1958 (I've forgotten the exact date) Kodak replaced
the original Verichrome with Verichrome-Pan, a general
purpose panchromatic film of excellent performance but
lacking the retouching surfaces supplied on Plus-X and
having a characteristic more tollerant of exposure and
processing errors. However, tone rendition with V-Pan and
Plus-X are essentially identical.
Verichrome Pan can be processed in nearly any developer
but works well in D-76. Being a panchromatic film it must be
processed in total darkness. I shot a great deal of this
film until it was discontinued a few years ago. Unless its
been stored in cold storage most of it is probably pretty
badly fogged by now.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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