From: Mark Kronquist (mak@teleport.com)
Date: 02/04/02-10:13:09 AM Z
I have processed film dating back to 1930 with generally good results. A 15
year old roll of TXP or PXP should not pose many challenges as long as they
have been kept dark and at least at room temperature.
Heat, light and humidity are the killers here.
There may be some increase in base fog, loss of shadow detail etc. A
slightly extended developing time is not a bad idea.
Good luck...
I found a roll of 120 VP in a Kodak 50th Anniversary I picked up over the
weeked wish me luck on this oldie
Mark
> From: Graeme Lyall <graeme.lyall@ntlworld.com>
> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 05:41:38 +0000
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> Subject: Re: 15 year's old, unprocessed
>
> I think the longest period of time I have left film undeveloped was just
> about 15 years, unintentionally I should add, and it did process quite well.
> I added to the development time, giving it about 1.5x normal. This was
> guesswork, but has worked pretty well on several occasions.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Kurzawa - Austin Texas <frank@kurzawa.com>
> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Date: 04 February 2002 14:12
> Subject: 15 year's old, unprocessed
>
>
>
> Forgive my off-topic (?) posting.
>
> I joined this list b/c from the name I thought that it might help me with my
> problem, but now, after reading a few posts I see that perhaps this isn't
> the place. But I was still hoping that someone could steer me to a list or a
> resource that might would some answers to this problem:
>
> I have some b & w film that was shot about 15 years ago but was never
> processed. It's mostly Plus-X shot at 250 although there is some shot Plus-X
> at other speeds. And there is a little Tri-X shot at speeds as high as 1600
> or 3200 as well as some TMAX shot at 400.
>
> All this film was refrigerated for the majority of that 15 years. But not
> for all of it. :(
>
> My concern is that I understand that quite aside from normal film chemical
> degradation, that an unprocessed latent image will begin to disappear from
> the film as time passes. Is this true? What is the best approach to salvage
> this film? Should it be processed differently than if it was freshly shot?
> If so how? Who would know about this strange problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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