Found film, or film processed long after exposure

In a recently purchased Kodak Brownie 2A I found a used Kodak Verichrome Pan 116 roll film, rewound. I have hung onto it for a bit but, a couple of weeks ago I managed to get hold of a Patterson System II tank with a reel which can be adjusted to take 116 (and probably 616, both basically 70mm film).

I developed the film today, no idea of its age. Got a full set of negatives, to my surprise, nat astonishment, Rodinol :50 10 minutes as 22C. I'm waiting for the negatives to dry. The next step is scanning, I might have a set of masks for the V700 scanner's 120 so I will post the results, soon as I can, here.

What a beast to load into the spiral. The film is very curly, mainly logitudinally but also laterally.

Such a fabulous roll fim format. With a bit of engineering, paticularly addessing the film flatness, It's perfect for postcard sized prints.

By the way, I created another thread recently, after processing a Kodacolor-X colour negative film as black and white. Should have been in this thread. Can a superhero fix it and move it to this thread?

Finally, anyone in the forum who comes across an undeveloped film, 116 or 616, contact me about developing, I do it or you do it using my developing tank. PM please.
 
In a recently purchased Kodak Brownie 2A I found a used Kodak Verichrome Pan 116 roll film, rewound. I have hung onto it for a bit but, a couple of weeks ago I managed to get hold of a Patterson System II tank with a reel which can be adjusted to take 116 (and probably 616, both basically 70mm film).

I developed the film today, no idea of its age. Got a full set of negatives, to my surprise, nat astonishment, Rodinol :50 10 minutes as 22C. I'm waiting for the negatives to dry. The next step is scanning, I might have a set of masks for the V700 scanner's 120 so I will post the results, soon as I can, here.

What a beast to load into the spiral. The film is very curly, mainly logitudinally but also laterally.

Such a fabulous roll fim format. With a bit of engineering, paticularly addessing the film flatness, It's perfect for postcard sized prints.

By the way, I created another thread recently, after processing a Kodacolor-X colour negative film as black and white. Should have been in this thread. Can a superhero fix it and move it to this thread?

Finally, anyone in the forum who comes across an undeveloped film, 116 or 616, contact me about developing, I do it or you do it using my developing tank. PM please.
I have a lovely folding AGFA camera that takes 116 film and would love to have tried it out on some, but it's sadly obsolete now. I've got an antique Bakelite developing tank with a spiral that adjusts to take 116 if they ever bring it back. I'm looking forward to seeing the results from your film too.
 
I got one the adapter kits to use 120 film in the Brownie 2A but haven't had a chnce to use it. It should make slightly panoramic negs. The kit contains instructions on how to guesstimate the number of turns of the winding knob which of course changes from frame to frame.
 
Results from the Verichrome Pan film. All the negatives came out, 7 on the film, I'm slightly astonished. They are all uniformly out of focus because of a lack of depth of field. However, I think this picture is quite compelling.
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I have literally started to learn how to develop film in the past week and a half and had a couple dozen rolls of film, all shot between 2015/16 lying around to practice on.

So much to learn but having a ton of fun. This was shot on expired delta 100 and left undeveloped for half a decade.
 
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Another. This from the first time I ever shot film, using a Canon AE1 program. As much as these images suffer from technical failures on my part, I am so proud of them and they have lead me to purchase a bunch of film, some cameras and take film seriously for the first time. So excited about this. Hope you’re all safe and well [emoji16]
 
Lovely shots Kris and welcome to our world :)
 
They're dated 02/94 or expire in 02/94... That's another couple of years difference ;)
 
They've got professional written on them so they'll be fine
 
Isn’t the date on them assumed to be the expiration/process before date? I wasn’t aware film had any other date written on them? And yes, who’s counting ;)
 
Planning to shoot at EI 20???? (If my maths is correct....) EDIT... maybe 25?

What I'd do in this situation is to shoot 8 at 20, 8 at 32 and 8 at 40 (even better if you can cut half the film and make that 4 each, the same 4 shots), then check the negs, pick your fave and wham the rest through on that EI... ;)
 
Well the proof of the pudding....... is to see what the lab scans are like. On a well balanced shot (i.e. not a tricky light one) all the colours should be correct. I used one very old film and found e.g. the person's lips were too red, so reduced the red and it affected all the other colours :banghead:
 
I have two rolls of exposed film from my Dad. No markings, but it looks like old B&W Svema 65 from late 80s. I will try to develop it next week. What is the common wisdom for this case? 1:100 Rodinal at 20c for one hour with a few rotations every 15 minutes. I do it manually in a tank.

Please advise. Thanks
 
I have two rolls of exposed film from my Dad. No markings, but it looks like old B&W Svema 65 from late 80s. I will try to develop it next week. What is the common wisdom for this case? 1:100 Rodinal at 20c for one hour with a few rotations every 15 minutes. I do it manually in a tank.

Please advise. Thanks
Yeah, pretty much this ^^^^ I think the oldest Ive processed with this method is probably about 50 years old, it wasn't great but you could at least see there were images on there.

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by Nick Watson, on Flickr
 
Here are a couple of scanned plates from a batch I bought some time ago.

Handley Page bomber (O/400? Hinaidi? Hyderabad?) at an air show. Maybe 1920's. Ilford 6"x4" Professional Press plate.

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Ely cathedral, although the box is labelled Fulham palace , Hogs Back and H'Court (Hampton Court?)! Ilford quarter plate Special Rapid Panchromatic.

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Actually, when I received the Ely plates I was a bit disappointed as they were advertised as Fulham Palace and I've got dozens of my own pictures of the Cathedral taken over the 11 years I lived thereabouts.
 
I have just come back to film after 20 years off.
In my getting sorted, I asked for developing items from friends and got a selection of kit just like I had 20 years ago, but this time for free, which great.

With one lot it came 5 rolls of exposed FP4 and HP5, been in a loft for 20 years or so I am told.
So how should I tackle this development?
 
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I have just come back to film after 20 years off.
In my getting sorted, I asked for developing items from friends and got a selection of kit just like I had 20 years ago, but this time for free, which great.

With one lot it came 5 rolls of exposed FP4 and HP5, been in a loft for 20 years or so I am told.
So how should I tackle this development?
You could try one in whatever chems you have as a test? OTOH the standard "no idea what this is" answer seems to be stand dev in Rodinal for an hour... but I've never tried it (someone will confirm whether I'm talking rubbish here).

Or, you could try Peak, who claim to be able to handle old film. Or there's a US company or group who are real specialists.
 
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Thanks Chris, aim to just try at home as its likely ruined having been cooked in a loft for many years.
 
As Chris suggests the classic Rodinal 1:100 stand developed for 1hr will usually get some usable results. There is some debate over the use of this method but I've found it worked for a variety of found film. I'm sure if you wanted to try test clips with different chems and times you'd find something better but personally i don't have that many chemicals or that much time.
 
Yes, Rodinal 1:100 for an hour will get you an image if there is one to get. Some people use stand development for all their films but there are risks associated with it - bromine drag for instance and it can "over sharpen" films sometimes.
 
Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Draper, 70, Lavender Grove, Hackney, date and photographer unknown.
Vintage wedding photos from a batch of four sets I bought on-line. The photographer was undoubtedly a professional (or hack). Every set of photographs uses the same formula of 48 shots all posed similarly, presumably 4 x 12 6x6 exposure films allowed for each assignment. The films don't have any edge markings. The camera is obviously unknown but the negatives are very sharp and contrasty so I would say it must have been a decent quality one.

1) Wedding group

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Photo-bombed by what I have tentatively identified as a Type SR Z 0-8-0 heavy shunter pulling some carriages. The type was withdrawn from service in 1962 so that would place the wedding photograph before then. Don't believe for a minute I'm a railway buff but I managed to identify the locomotive type by searching on th'internet for pictures of 0-8-0 locos. Wikipedia clinched it.

I spotted the negative and also removed dozens of fag ends littering the scene. I was unable to disguise the manhole cover the bridegroom is standing on. I should have left the defects in the photographs, apart from dust and scratches, as a tribute to the photographer's professionalism. There is another version of the same shot but the brides head is too badly damaged to make an attempted recovery worthwhile besides which it doesn't have the daft background.

2) A bridesmaid poses in the same spot, or is it just a bad picture of the manhole cover? Whoever is living in the pre-fab behind has just chucked a big shovel of slack on the fire and obviously the road sweeper hasn't been past for a while.

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3) Nervous bridegroom and best man check how late the bride is

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4) Happily married at last!

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Lovely quality shots and looks like late 40s early fifties shots....and I don't remember the fashion of a hoop under the wedding and bridesmaid's dress.
 
I'd say late 40's. The groom's trousers look like my Dad's de-mob suit.

I wonder if the photographer was well aware of the two trains in the photo.
 
I'd say late 40's. The groom's trousers look like my Dad's de-mob suit.

I wonder if the photographer was well aware of the two trains in the photo.

The house for the address given i.e. 70 Lavender grove is now worth about £1.2 million o_O
 
I take it it's not one of those prefabs in the background then? Mind you, knowing London property prices! :rolleyes:

erm how the prefabs must have shook so near the railway :eek: .....the photo taken was not at the address given maybe the bride lived in one of the houses but still why didn't the photographer take the shots in better surroundings...probably just an ordinary photographe or friend with a good camera.
 
The two locations in the photos I've posted above have both been identified. The first is in Palma Nova, Mallorca. The red fronted restaurand named Ciro's is still there (albeit re-modelled in the last fifty years at some point). The second photo is of Port de Soller, Mallorca.

The photo below might also be Port de Soller, although I'm not sure.


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erm how the prefabs must have shook so near the railway :eek: .....the photo taken was not at the address given maybe the bride lived in one of the houses but still why didn't the photographer take the shots in better surroundings...probably just an ordinary photographe or friend with a good camera.
It all looked like that then, that was as good as it got
 
A further slide from this set depicting a summer holiday to Majorca back in 1972. I'm gradually piecing together the slides from the larger collection (helped by the fact that the original photographer numbered them all so they could be projected in the correct order). There are seventy-something slides altogether, including some home-made start and finish photos with which to begin and conclude the presentation, depicting a trip made by two ladies.

This one shows the Sa Foradada peninsula. It was probably photographed on the same day as the Port de Soller image which is a little to the north-east of this location.


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by a_bit_of_this_a_bit_of_that, on Flickr
 
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