Re: Very old undeveloped film

From: ADAM ABRAMS (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jan 11 2010 - 06:54:05 PST


you should be able to get something on the black and white. i shot hundreds of feet of 16mm film that had expired in 1964 a few years back. lots of beautiful pearly fog. higher silver content back then.

cheers,
aa

> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 18:49:34 -0800
> From: email suppressed
> Subject: Re: Very old undeveloped film
> To: email suppressed
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> of course tests will be done. I work at millennium film workshop in new york. I found it cleaning up. It has just been sitting there for all of this time. It surely has been exposed to high humidity at times.
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> it is just that I will need to process it by hand, which is hazardous and a hassle. I want to get a sense of the likeliness of getting something from it. I plan on placing objects and 16 film on it and "flashing" light. That kind of stuff.
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> but thanks for the response. i appreciate it.
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> --- On Sat, 1/9/10, Ed Inman <email suppressed> wrote:
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> > From: Ed Inman <email suppressed>
> > Subject: Re: Very old undeveloped film
> > To: email suppressed
> > Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 9:26 PM
> > Too many variables beginning with
> > where and how the film was stored to answer that with any
> > certainty.
> > Never hurts to experiment, just keep in mind that
> > "experiment" by definition means no guaranteed result.
> > Ed
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > >From: Jay Hudson <email suppressed>
> > >Sent: Jan 9, 2010 7:42 PM
> > >To: email suppressed
> > >Subject: Very old undeveloped film
> > >
> > >i found some rolls of undeveloped 35 film. one
> > was double x b/w neg and the others were 5254 color
> > neg. There is a date of march 1972 on the can.
> > Is there any hope that this would be usable?
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