Ah, Oops! Neopan in the laundry?

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wlewisiii

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Seems I forgot to take an exposed roll of Neopan 400 out of my jeans pocket before washing them. Anyone want to take bets on how salvageable it is? :bang: :bang: :bang:

I'll let it dry in the casette and then see. Anyone else done this? Results?

William
 
Don't let it dry in the cassette, no matter what else you do. You'll never get it unstuck from itself. Keep it wet, even if you have to store it in a glass of water.

Just load it on a stainless reel and process it. I bet it will be OK.
 
Ok, put it into water till I can get to processing it. Thanks for the tip!

William
 
I guess it goes w/o saying that you might want to toss the dev/fix you use on that roll - i'd hate to see you contaminate/ruin your chem's with whatever detergent(s) have soaked into the emulsion.

Whatever happens, i'm very curious to see the results - maybe laundering exposed film is the new 'secret' weapon! I can hear the conversation now: "Are you running your film through the wash first? No? Well, there's your problem." :)

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I hope the images were not really important... just in case.

Funny you should talk about mishaps. This very evening I was developing one roll of my bete noîre, Kodak, and for some reason the film seemed stuck in the canister. I managed to keep pulling it into the spool very slowly until I thought it had gone in.

Well, by washing, I saw two large pink surfaces; I fixed it again to no avail, and when it came to hang it to dry I saw the problem: the last frames stuck together. Don't ask me why or how, but frames 34, 35 and 36 were somehow stuck.

I never experience anything like this with any brand... although, now that I remember, Fuji stuff seems to have a life of its own.

Good luck with your Neopan! :)
 
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