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26yr old Ektachrome, D76,Dektol mix, IT ACTUALLY WORKED ! Now What ?
I am new to photography, well not photography but certainly developing
and printing my own film. This all started about 2 months ago because of my sons interest in B&W Motion pictures, I bought im a Bolex 8 all the lenses etc, I also picked up some other nice camera's an Ala, and a Rolei, as well as many random camera's in 1 package deal. One of the random camera's was a Minolta 400 Super 8, he and I had no interest, in it because of the film cost/availablity (about 15 vs 8$ for a reel) But it had a roll of Exachrome 160 that expired in 1980 with it. Sunday I was developing a couple of rolls of 120 I had just shot with my new (to me) Mamyia C3, I had a tank of D76 left over that was used enough I was debating putting back with the rest as well as a tray of Dektol, SO I said hey Ive read some people get an image with d76 on Ekta, he said no way isnt the color different, I said yes but hey what do we have to loose. So we shot it and hammered the cartridge apart in our makeshift darkroom. Took the whole spagetti mess and shoved it into the tank of D76, but I was left with some room so I dumped in the Dektol, put the lid on and darn near shook it for about 7 minutes (give or take 2 Washed it, and pured in some fixer, 10 minutes later.......... I have an IMAGE, not only an Image a DECENT Image, but in negative of course, I didnt think it would work at ALL let alone as well as it did, but now I've got a negative not a reversal. I've got to say 26 year old film in a HOT attic, with D76 and Dektol, this is crazy isnt it ? The cool part it as I dragged it into the driveway sun to dry, it got covered in some cat hait, had some of the emulsion scratched off on the threshold, and look genuinley VERY Cool when viewed. VERY Cool, you would swear other than the computers (from in house shots) and the 2006 cars in the driveway it was shot in the 20's NOW How can I get this to a positive ? Is there a way to do it digitally ? Thanks Chris The Guy who has no Idea what hes doing but is having fun doing it. |
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26yr old Ektachrome, D76,Dektol mix, IT ACTUALLY WORKED ! Now What ?
Video not really my thing (though I did some video transfer one place I
worked) but if you projected the S8 negative and refilmed it with a digital movie camera you might have a shot at reversing it with a film editing program (Adobe Premiere?). And it you found the right film lab, they could do it for you optically (provided you're ready for a second mortgage). Keep us in the loop (pun intended) but you may want to post this on a different forum. -- darkroommike wrote in message oups.com... I am new to photography, well not photography but certainly developing and printing my own film. This all started about 2 months ago because of my sons interest in B&W Motion pictures, I bought im a Bolex 8 all the lenses etc, I also picked up some other nice camera's an Ala, and a Rolei, as well as many random camera's in 1 package deal. One of the random camera's was a Minolta 400 Super 8, he and I had no interest, in it because of the film cost/availablity (about 15 vs 8$ for a reel) But it had a roll of Exachrome 160 that expired in 1980 with it. Sunday I was developing a couple of rolls of 120 I had just shot with my new (to me) Mamyia C3, I had a tank of D76 left over that was used enough I was debating putting back with the rest as well as a tray of Dektol, SO I said hey Ive read some people get an image with d76 on Ekta, he said no way isnt the color different, I said yes but hey what do we have to loose. So we shot it and hammered the cartridge apart in our makeshift darkroom. Took the whole spagetti mess and shoved it into the tank of D76, but I was left with some room so I dumped in the Dektol, put the lid on and darn near shook it for about 7 minutes (give or take 2 Washed it, and pured in some fixer, 10 minutes later.......... I have an IMAGE, not only an Image a DECENT Image, but in negative of course, I didnt think it would work at ALL let alone as well as it did, but now I've got a negative not a reversal. I've got to say 26 year old film in a HOT attic, with D76 and Dektol, this is crazy isnt it ? The cool part it as I dragged it into the driveway sun to dry, it got covered in some cat hait, had some of the emulsion scratched off on the threshold, and look genuinley VERY Cool when viewed. VERY Cool, you would swear other than the computers (from in house shots) and the 2006 cars in the driveway it was shot in the 20's NOW How can I get this to a positive ? Is there a way to do it digitally ? Thanks Chris The Guy who has no Idea what hes doing but is having fun doing it. |
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26yr old Ektachrome, D76,Dektol mix, IT ACTUALLY WORKED ! Now What ?
wrote in message oups.com... I am new to photography, well not photography but certainly developing and printing my own film. This all started about 2 months ago because of my sons interest in B&W Motion pictures, I bought im a Bolex 8 all the lenses etc, I also picked up some other nice camera's an Ala, and a Rolei, as well as many random camera's in 1 package deal. One of the random camera's was a Minolta 400 Super 8, he and I had no interest, in it because of the film cost/availablity (about 15 vs 8$ for a reel) But it had a roll of Exachrome 160 that expired in 1980 with it. Sunday I was developing a couple of rolls of 120 I had just shot with my new (to me) Mamyia C3, I had a tank of D76 left over that was used enough I was debating putting back with the rest as well as a tray of Dektol, SO I said hey Ive read some people get an image with d76 on Ekta, he said no way isnt the color different, I said yes but hey what do we have to loose. So we shot it and hammered the cartridge apart in our makeshift darkroom. Took the whole spagetti mess and shoved it into the tank of D76, but I was left with some room so I dumped in the Dektol, put the lid on and darn near shook it for about 7 minutes (give or take 2 Washed it, and pured in some fixer, 10 minutes later.......... I have an IMAGE, not only an Image a DECENT Image, but in negative of course, I didnt think it would work at ALL let alone as well as it did, but now I've got a negative not a reversal. I've got to say 26 year old film in a HOT attic, with D76 and Dektol, this is crazy isnt it ? Actually, it's not all that crazy. The developer affects only those areas of the film that were exposed to light. When you "correctly" develope reversal film, you develope a negative image, then chemically remove that image. The remaining areas of the film, heretofore unaffected, are chemically "exposed" and developed into a positive image. What you did was the first part: developing the negative image. As for the D-76/Dektol mix, you probably got a fairly high contrast developer. Since you were dealing with old film, badly stored, that was a good thing. (Are you re-using your developer? Personnally, I like the dilute,-use-once,-throw-away method) Next step now is to print each frame of the film, put the prints together in a stack and flip thru them fast (16/second), and it will look just like a movie! -- Ken Hart |
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26yr old Ektachrome, D76,Dektol mix, IT ACTUALLY WORKED ! Now What ?
"As for the D-76/Dektol mix, you probably got a fairly high contrast
developer. Since you were dealing with old film, badly stored, that was a good thing. " ....thanks that was kinda why I added the Dektol I had in the tray, as I've heard you can do some high contrast film with it if used at the right dilution, this film was so old I thought it might help. who knows if it did.... I've got a Regular 8 and a 16mm Projector (well my son does) I am trying to look "printing" the negative to other film as a positive, Either 8 or 16, anyone know how to do this ? Lay one on top ot the other and expose ? Thats really what Im lookign for is a way to transfer the negative image to other moview film (Shoulda said that) The crazy part was the age and storage conditions of the fiml but youre right the D76/Dektol mix probably helped big time. I didnt want to try reversal on the film I had, (1 I wasnt sure if color reversal bleach is the same) and 2 I was so stunned I got an image I fixed it, with the emlusion flaky and being developed with B7W developer I also wasnt sure if reversing it would strip all the emulsion off.So I fixed it. (Are you re-using your developer? Personnally, I like the dilute,-use-once,-throw-away method) I use it for the day then it goes byebye at $4.50 a gallon its not worth screwing up one roll of film, although now I will probably keep the leftovers for just such experiments. Interestingly I tried this on 2 rolls, 1 I shot (that came out good) and 1 that was in the camera and shot, the one that was in the camera managed to give me flaky green stuff (looked like algae) in the fixer and no image. Thanks Chris Ken Hart wrote: wrote in message oups.com... I am new to photography, well not photography but certainly developing and printing my own film. This all started about 2 months ago because of my sons interest in B&W Motion pictures, I bought im a Bolex 8 all the lenses etc, I also picked up some other nice camera's an Ala, and a Rolei, as well as many random camera's in 1 package deal. One of the random camera's was a Minolta 400 Super 8, he and I had no interest, in it because of the film cost/availablity (about 15 vs 8$ for a reel) But it had a roll of Exachrome 160 that expired in 1980 with it. Sunday I was developing a couple of rolls of 120 I had just shot with my new (to me) Mamyia C3, I had a tank of D76 left over that was used enough I was debating putting back with the rest as well as a tray of Dektol, SO I said hey Ive read some people get an image with d76 on Ekta, he said no way isnt the color different, I said yes but hey what do we have to loose. So we shot it and hammered the cartridge apart in our makeshift darkroom. Took the whole spagetti mess and shoved it into the tank of D76, but I was left with some room so I dumped in the Dektol, put the lid on and darn near shook it for about 7 minutes (give or take 2 Washed it, and pured in some fixer, 10 minutes later.......... I have an IMAGE, not only an Image a DECENT Image, but in negative of course, I didnt think it would work at ALL let alone as well as it did, but now I've got a negative not a reversal. I've got to say 26 year old film in a HOT attic, with D76 and Dektol, this is crazy isnt it ? Actually, it's not all that crazy. The developer affects only those areas of the film that were exposed to light. When you "correctly" develope reversal film, you develope a negative image, then chemically remove that image. The remaining areas of the film, heretofore unaffected, are chemically "exposed" and developed into a positive image. What you did was the first part: developing the negative image. As for the D-76/Dektol mix, you probably got a fairly high contrast developer. Since you were dealing with old film, badly stored, that was a good thing. (Are you re-using your developer? Personnally, I like the dilute,-use-once,-throw-away method) Next step now is to print each frame of the film, put the prints together in a stack and flip thru them fast (16/second), and it will look just like a movie! -- Ken Hart |
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26yr old Ektachrome, D76,Dektol mix, IT ACTUALLY WORKED ! Now What ?
What you propose doing is called printing (just like still images). The
trick for you will be exposure control. There are places that will do this for you. Another approach is digital, I ran across a program that will take scanned images from movies and convert them to an .avi file (which I think is pretty darn slick): http://www.winsite.com/bin/info?5000000037658 (FYI here be popups to navigate around but the info is solid.) Way back when there were places that sold lots of 8mm/super8/16mm and even sold cheap cineprinters (at least I think that's what they were called) there are probably even plans for DIY units (I have seen plans for a DIY cineprocessor). This is a more generic link to something called the 8mm metasite: http://lavender.fortunecity.com/lavender/569/# which bills itself as a jumping off place for small format filmmakers. Lots of annoying popups but its a free site. BTW I found several sources for Kodak Plus-X and Tri-X Super* reversal films that a guy could process at home to a positive and not have to work so hard. http://lavender.fortunecity.com/lave...plication.html a short article on optical duplication And you can also try our sister groups: rec.arts.movies.tech and alt.movies.cinematography.super8 -- darkroommike wrote in message oups.com... "As for the D-76/Dektol mix, you probably got a fairly high contrast developer. Since you were dealing with old film, badly stored, that was a good thing. " ....thanks that was kinda why I added the Dektol I had in the tray, as I've heard you can do some high contrast film with it if used at the right dilution, this film was so old I thought it might help. who knows if it did.... I've got a Regular 8 and a 16mm Projector (well my son does) I am trying to look "printing" the negative to other film as a positive, Either 8 or 16, anyone know how to do this ? Lay one on top ot the other and expose ? Thats really what Im lookign for is a way to transfer the negative image to other moview film (Shoulda said that) The crazy part was the age and storage conditions of the fiml but youre right the D76/Dektol mix probably helped big time. I didnt want to try reversal on the film I had, (1 I wasnt sure if color reversal bleach is the same) and 2 I was so stunned I got an image I fixed it, with the emlusion flaky and being developed with B7W developer I also wasnt sure if reversing it would strip all the emulsion off.So I fixed it. (Are you re-using your developer? Personnally, I like the dilute,-use-once,-throw-away method) I use it for the day then it goes byebye at $4.50 a gallon its not worth screwing up one roll of film, although now I will probably keep the leftovers for just such experiments. Interestingly I tried this on 2 rolls, 1 I shot (that came out good) and 1 that was in the camera and shot, the one that was in the camera managed to give me flaky green stuff (looked like algae) in the fixer and no image. Thanks Chris Ken Hart wrote: wrote in message oups.com... I am new to photography, well not photography but certainly developing and printing my own film. This all started about 2 months ago because of my sons interest in B&W Motion pictures, I bought im a Bolex 8 all the lenses etc, I also picked up some other nice camera's an Ala, and a Rolei, as well as many random camera's in 1 package deal. One of the random camera's was a Minolta 400 Super 8, he and I had no interest, in it because of the film cost/availablity (about 15 vs 8$ for a reel) But it had a roll of Exachrome 160 that expired in 1980 with it. Sunday I was developing a couple of rolls of 120 I had just shot with my new (to me) Mamyia C3, I had a tank of D76 left over that was used enough I was debating putting back with the rest as well as a tray of Dektol, SO I said hey Ive read some people get an image with d76 on Ekta, he said no way isnt the color different, I said yes but hey what do we have to loose. So we shot it and hammered the cartridge apart in our makeshift darkroom. Took the whole spagetti mess and shoved it into the tank of D76, but I was left with some room so I dumped in the Dektol, put the lid on and darn near shook it for about 7 minutes (give or take 2 Washed it, and pured in some fixer, 10 minutes later.......... I have an IMAGE, not only an Image a DECENT Image, but in negative of course, I didnt think it would work at ALL let alone as well as it did, but now I've got a negative not a reversal. I've got to say 26 year old film in a HOT attic, with D76 and Dektol, this is crazy isnt it ? Actually, it's not all that crazy. The developer affects only those areas of the film that were exposed to light. When you "correctly" develope reversal film, you develope a negative image, then chemically remove that image. The remaining areas of the film, heretofore unaffected, are chemically "exposed" and developed into a positive image. What you did was the first part: developing the negative image. As for the D-76/Dektol mix, you probably got a fairly high contrast developer. Since you were dealing with old film, badly stored, that was a good thing. (Are you re-using your developer? Personnally, I like the dilute,-use-once,-throw-away method) Next step now is to print each frame of the film, put the prints together in a stack and flip thru them fast (16/second), and it will look just like a movie! -- Ken Hart |
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 12:10:45 -0500, "Ken Hart" wrote:
the film that were exposed to light. When you "correctly" develope reversal film, you develope a negative image, then chemically remove that image. The Sorta. In the interest of true accuracy, to process color reversal film, you chemically expose the latent photograpic negative image with a developer that does not activate the dye couplers. The silver grains are then not available for further exposure. You then chemically expose the remaining halides to completion, and use a color developer on THAT latent postive image. You then have a color positive and all of the halides on the film have been converted to silver. Then, you bleach the silver back to silver salts, and use a fixer to remove all of those, leaving behind only the dyes. Stabilize the dyes, and you're done. A six-bath process breaks this down into discreet steps (with a pre-bleach between the color developer and the bleach). A three-bath process combines the reversal and color developer steps into the second bath, and the bleach & fixer into a blix, omitting a separate pre-bleach. -- Rob on the Web - Trouble In Paradise http://rob.rnovak.net |
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26yr old Ektachrome, D76,Dektol mix, IT ACTUALLY WORKED ! Now What ?
EXACTLY What I was looking for thanks !!!!!!
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26yr old Ektachrome, D76,Dektol mix, IT ACTUALLY WORKED ! Now What ?
While chemical flash is currently the re-exposure method of choice a blast
of white light will also do the trick. The old Unicolor E-4 kits had you hold the wet reels of wet film up close to a photoflood lamp for re-exposure and the old Morse G-3 wind/rewind tanks had a window in the side for the same purpose with movie films (I saw one of these at the last swap meet I attended--now I wish I'd plunked down the $10 bucks he was asking!). It's cheaper and some of the foggants used for re-exposure are not very safe chemicals but then holding wet reels of film up to a photoflood lamp that might explode if splashed with water sucks, too. -- darkroommike "Rob Novak" wrote in message ... On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 12:10:45 -0500, "Ken Hart" wrote: the film that were exposed to light. When you "correctly" develope reversal film, you develope a negative image, then chemically remove that image. The Sorta. In the interest of true accuracy, to process color reversal film, you chemically expose the latent photograpic negative image with a developer that does not activate the dye couplers. The silver grains are then not available for further exposure. You then chemically expose the remaining halides to completion, and use a color developer on THAT latent postive image. You then have a color positive and all of the halides on the film have been converted to silver. Then, you bleach the silver back to silver salts, and use a fixer to remove all of those, leaving behind only the dyes. Stabilize the dyes, and you're done. A six-bath process breaks this down into discreet steps (with a pre-bleach between the color developer and the bleach). A three-bath process combines the reversal and color developer steps into the second bath, and the bleach & fixer into a blix, omitting a separate pre-bleach. -- Rob on the Web - Trouble In Paradise http://rob.rnovak.net |
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photofloods shatter was 26yr old Ektachrome, D76,Dektol mix, IT ACTUALLY WORKED ! Now What ?
That wasn't my point. If you say it can't happen and through some
unbelievable combination of stupidity and bad luck it comes to pass then who is responsible? (Or at least who should feel morally responsible?) And if Mr. Bad Luck used a halogen lamp instead of a photoflood? Sheesh. GE, Kodak and OSRAM are all on my side on this one, I wager the Kodak labs have processed a wee bit more film than you and I together and that lamp makers know their product better than you or I. And I doubt that you've processed film under every possible scenario or set of conditions. Even you say the glass will just fall if the lamp cracks and I'm holding the film UP to the lamp where is the glass going? Down towards me? (Actually I know better but some newbie might not.) -- darkroommike "nailer" wrote in message ... two things- 1. depending on quantity of water and type of glass, crack will or will not happened. 2. If it cracks it will FALL down, not fly to your eyes. Why would it? What force would do it? Is a lamp pressurised? Lamps are usually filled with nitrogen or argon, or empty )vaccuum). I've done thousands rev processing using either an ambient light or floodlight. Over 50 years I had not one accident and I am not aware of any. Unless you some really stupid things. But it is not covered by a standard procedure. |
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