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Question on Outdated B&W film
I just found 2 rolls of Forte Fortepan 400 B&W print film I had ordered from B&H in 2004. They are dated as expiring in July 2005. The film has been stored at room temperature since I received it. Does anyone have any ideas on whether it still would make decent prints, or should I forget about it? Thanks |
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Question on Outdated B&W film
esb100 wrote:
I just found 2 rolls of Forte Fortepan 400 B&W print film I had ordered from B&H in 2004. They are dated as expiring in July 2005. The film has been stored at room temperature since I received it. Does anyone have any ideas on whether it still would make decent prints, or should I forget about it? Thanks While there are some people in this group who would tell you that it NEVER would make decent prints, I expect that you will find no noticable difference between it when you got it and now. There might be a little fog, but I doubt that you would notice it. As ever with film of unknown quality, don't use it for those once in a lifetime shots. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ |
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Question on Outdated B&W film
Geoffrey S. Mendelson spake thus:
esb100 wrote: I just found 2 rolls of Forte Fortepan 400 B&W print film I had ordered from B&H in 2004. They are dated as expiring in July 2005. The film has been stored at room temperature since I received it. Does anyone have any ideas on whether it still would make decent prints, or should I forget about it? Thanks While there are some people in this group who would tell you that it NEVER would make decent prints, I expect that you will find no noticable difference between it when you got it and now. There might be a little fog, but I doubt that you would notice it. I doubt that there would even be any noticeable fog. I've developed 25-year old film (exposed that long ago) with no problems with fog. -- Save the Planet Kill Yourself - motto of the Church of Euthanasia (http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/) |
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Question on Outdated B&W film
With filim stored at room temp I've had mixed results.
The Ilford that I've used has been good. Little if any fog. Plus-X hasn't generally worked out well. Gets fogged quickly. TMax 100 & 400 have been ok. It may depend on what "room temperature" really means. Did it get *any* direct sunlight. What were the temp variations or seasons? I've bought a lot of film from a local camera retailer. It's been kept at *store temperature*, slightly cooler than many homes. It's worked well for me. Collin |
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Question on Outdated B&W film
John wrote:
One thing I noticed when developing some extremely old and foggy PXP was that the grain was incredibly coarse for what is normally a fairly good film. A few months back, M. Scarpitti asserted that aged film would be grainier, and when I asked why, explained that smaller grains lose both pre-exposure sensitivity and post-exposure latent-exposure-ness (whatever the word for that is) faster than big grains. That seems reasonable. I recently developed some Tmax 400 that had been sitting in a camera for a long time and it was awfully grainy, more so than I expected for 10 year old film. The developer was some D-76 that had been sitting around in a full plastic bottle for a while and I wonder if some of the sodium sulfite had started to break down, since my understanding is that the sulfite retards graininess. Call it a learning experience... |
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