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Yes, totally agree with your title. Fun!
Thank you for the suggestions. As to storage conditions over a few decades for this film, who knows. All I can say is dry, dark, seasonable to some degree. My priority is the B&W, and home processing makes sense for tailoring the processing time, temp, chemistry in any way to help recover old latent images. What you said. A challenge ts knowing what accomodations to make to the processing cycle. For sure a little destructive testing could provide some guidance...
I'm finding there are a few labs locally that still handle B&W, and there is one that offers push/pull service up to two stops. I'm considering giving them 3 old plus x rolls and having them develop 1 normal, 1 plus 1, and 1 plus 2 stops.That could pretty much represent the possibilities. Maybe that's all it takes to resolve the 35 mm B&W, with any better outcome being either really expensive, time consuming, or both. Whatever appears best out of the 3 test rolls, I would use that same lab and process for the rest of the 35 mm. Does that make sense to you?
Still thinking about the roll film. And I will definitely check out the lab you noted for the color.
Thanks again for weighing in.
Film Hell (Latent Memories Lost) - Suggestions Appreciated
In the photo we see a collection of unprocessed film that turned up in the course of my ongoing decluttering effort. There are 18 rolls of 120/220, mostly verichrome pan with some TXP. Also 22 rolls of 35 mm B&W, mostly plus x. And last half a dozen r...
at this point there is no rush to develop and ... 😉
it makes sense to send off a roll of each type to test the waters. Labs here no longer push/pull development. I have read numerous comments about how to approach specific development challenges, so research is your best bet. I have sent off a message to J...
Thanks for your feedback.
I'm definitely wondering if modifications to the standard development process could improve the outcome. So far I haven't found much on it. Lucky for me tanks, reels, thermometer, beakers etc were included with my "discovery". Definitely agree on the test...
Storage temperature will impact the outcome. Hopefully these didn’t get too hot, otherwise there will be a color shift. In my experience usually towards the red. Also how was the film treated before exposure ? Was it frozen ?
So many variables. Send one roll off to the lab, if possible note the parameters in which it was stored .. Mario
Thanks for your suggestion.
II will make sure the color stuff goes to a lab that can take into consideration the age of the film.
This will be fun!
You didn't mention how the negatives have been stored all these years and I'm curious about that. My prediction is that the black and white films will be better than you are expecting, but the color films will be a challenge. For color I'd just send a rol...
Yes, totally agree with your title. Fun!
Thank you for the suggestions. As to storage conditions over a few decades for this film, who knows. All I can say is dry, dark, seasonable to some degree. My priority is the B&W, and home processing makes sense for tailoring the processing time, temp...
Yep, your approach makes sense to me.
I'm guessing plus 1 or plus 2 will do the trick and at least you'll have something on the film. Please share!
My pleasure! I wonder about the digital equivalent.
Maybe in 2060 one of my sons will find my old Nikon D70 and go to heroic efforts to find what’s in the memory card. ;-)
Thank you both for sharing your thoughts.
I will definitely provide an update(s) as I work through this.
Update
This is to share an update on my film recovery project. I ended up doing a test processing with 2 rolls, and the negs came back yesterday. If this indicates what I can look forward to with the remaing rolls I will feel pretty happy about it. These are str...
The scans are looking good ...
flat scans are the easiest to work with. Congratulations, and thanks for the follow-up ... Casey .
Thanks to you both for earlier suggestions.
The initial results are encouraging. I will do one more test sample asap. Because I don't know what images this film holds, each roll will be a revelation or re-discovery of something I made or did in another time of my life. The excitement may not be con...
