+25 year old Tri-X—Processed

[RayPA]

Just passing along a cool story. I was cleaning out some storage and found a box of my old processing reels, graduates, thermometers, tanks, even a quarter full bottle of Rodinal. Included in the box were several exposed rolls of Tri-X. I figured they were duds by now, since the rolls were dated to expire in 1982, and were probably exposed around 1980 or '81. These go back to the days when Kodak was canning 20 exposure rolls.
I was very surprised when I processed a roll today—images! The base has picked up some density, it looks like it's slightly fogged, but otherwise they are scannable and printable. They were stored in a cool dry place and in the plastic film cannisters. Looking forward to processing the others.
I processed in D76 @ 1:1 for the standard time.

 

[bmattock]

Very cool! So where are the photos?

LOL!

Bill Mattocks

 

[Doug]

A great story, Ray! Lex, who moderates the B&W processing forum over on Photo.net, has been collecting such stories of current processing of film exposed long ago. He'd want all the details, and maybe a copy of a couple of scanned negs, I think.

I've only had experience with ancient film currently both exposed and processed. Like Ilford XP1 and Pan-F bulk-loaded in 1983, and a few remaining frozen rolls of Verichrome Pan in 110 size.

 

[RayPA]

Very cool! So where are the photos?

LOL!

Bill Mattocks

These are not exciting at all. They are pictures of a t.v. screen, a Sophia Loren movie. For some reason this was very cool to me back then. This was pre-MTV and cable t.v. I was going to wait until I processed some of the other rolls, but I'll attach one or two here.

 

[RayPA]

A great story, Ray! Lex, who moderates the B&W processing forum over on Photo.net, has been collecting such stories of current processing of film exposed long ago. He'd want all the details, and maybe a copy of a couple of scanned negs, I think.
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Thanks Doug,
I'll head over there and see what's up., sounds interesting.

 

[vladhed]

A great story, Ray! Lex, who moderates the B&W processing forum over on Photo.net, has been collecting such stories of current processing of film exposed long ago. He'd want all the details, and maybe a copy of a couple of scanned negs, I think.

I'll check that out. I bought a Kodak folding camera for 1$ and it was loaded with a roll (check in the darkroom) so I shot it off and developed in D-76 for about 5 minutes. One of the shots is on my Vintage Camera Page

Here's a full neg (shot with a digicam up against a white curtain!!) and a shot of the paper and the spool.

Maybe he can help me date the film.

 

[Roman]

A friend whose deceased dad was a camera collector once lent me a Zeiss Super-Ikonta, and I found a half exposed roll of AGfapan in it - developed it, and it contained some pics from the late 1970s/early 80s when we were both kids; unfortunately, the color rom the film backing had partly migrated into the emulsion, so the numbers from the backing paper where on the film.

Roman

 

[George S.]

These are not exciting at all. They are pictures of a t.v. screen, a Sophia Loren movie. For some reason this was very cool to me back then. This was pre-MTV and cable t.v. I was going to wait until I processed some of the other rolls, but I'll attach one or two here.

Mmmmm... let's see if we can come up with the reason this was interesting to you.... a shot of Sophia Loren in bed...Mmmmm... Yeah!I think I've got it!