30 year old TRiX

[Silva Lining]

I just picked up 20 rolls of 30 year old TriX (expiry date 1980) in 35mm 20 exposure rolls from the usual auction site.

I am expecting to experiment, but does anyone have any experience of using TriX of this age and/or thoughts on any adjustments that might need to be made to exposure or development (I dev my own)

I'll post some results (always assuming their are worth posting 😉 )

Phill

 

[martin s]

I tried some that was expired approximately a decade prior to development, turned out incredibly grainy (in a bad way).

martin

 

[grainy_shadows]

i just developed hp5 expired 2002 pushed to 1600 in rodinal 1:100, resulted in some fog and awesome grain!! (super grainy)

 

[MartinP]

It depends on what you want the results to be like I suppose. Like new TriX, or accentuated graininess, or low contrast, or ?? Also the film storage could play a part too, if the rolls were jammed at the back of a newish wooden box/drawer there could be chemical fogging, or if they were in someones attic in a hot and sunny place there could also be "accelerated" aging !

Try one at EI200 (quickly shoot a repeating set of five or six pics around the house, street etc so thet you can compare them easily) then chop the film up to use a few different developers and times on the film sections. I wouldn't know where to start as I've never used it, but HC110 developer seems to be mentioned frequently whenever people have very old films to develop. Probably not a good idea to use Rodinal though.

 

[Silva Lining]

Thanks for the responses - so its gonna be grainy I guess! I'd already set the camera at EI320, but think that's a good idea to pull it back to EI200 - I already use Perceptol, so that should do for fine grain developer....

Should be fun! I don't expect great results, but am just curious. (I have a supply of modern TRI-X too!)

 

[Roger Hicks]

With Perceptol, even 200 may be optimistic, but not too much so.

Grainy, foggy, yes, but probably usable.

Cheers,

R.

 

[aad]

Not necessarily grainy-I found a roll I had exposed 20 years before I developed it, and it was great.