[pure-silver] Re: update: verichrome pan dev time
- From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:08:06 -0700
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Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 12:55 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: update: verichrome pan dev time
Well I wonder sometimes why people would go through and try
to sell this stuff, especially at a premium because after
all you can't buy it anymore. grin
The latest expiration I saw was 1990 and many expired in the
60s and 70s
I used the film for the first time just as Kodak
discontinued it. I loved it then, but just because its in
the original box and packaging does not mean it is the same
film now.
Now I am not one to automatically toss a film because its a
few months past the date on the box. I wouldn't use it for
anything critical, but Id use it without hesitation. But
a over a decade past?? Might get images, but its not the
same film anymore and won't be consistent from roll to roll.
Unless I was curious, I wouldn't waste my time with 50 year
old film, then again I have been know to want to just see
what happens. You just might get something unique with 50
year old film. lol
I bought a couple of bricks of V-Pan long ago. It was
just expired so I got it cheap. It was lovely film. The last
of it was perhaps four years expired when I used it. It had
gotten somewhat foggy but still worked OK. I tried a little
bromide in the developer, I don't remember how much but not
a lot, and the negatives came out with no fogging. However,
bromide does have some effect on speed and probably on tone
rendition.
Kodak claimed that V-Pan was similar to Plus-X but
without the retouching surfaces. I think the only thing they
had in common was the approximate speed. I did like Plus-X
in roll film. Another goody was Plus-X motion picture
negative stock. I still have some although I don't know if
its still good.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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