Film found in family kiev - how to develop?

[Igor.Burshteyn]

I received today from FSU kiev 4a that belonged to our family some 13 years ago, all this time camera was properly stored. To my surprise it contained exposured film. I'd like to develop it but have no idea what kind of process to use (b&w or C41) - film can has no registration marks, it's just black alloy can with only marking being something like "Z35K" in cyrillic which is obviously translated as "price is 0.35 rubel". Any idea what kind of film it can be?

 

[wyk_penguin]

take a film picker and fetch the leader out of the can. Greyish = B&W; Brown = colour neg.; blue, purple, black = slide film

I don't know if there are any oddities as the above is clearly my experience with modern emulsions.

 

[ZorkiKat]

The cassette you found sounds to be the refillable type. It likely has BW inside. As the previous post said, if the film looks grey, it would BW. Hard to determine though what its make or speed would be. These are critical for determining what sort of developing time it needs with the developer you'll be using with it.

 

[ruben]

Old black and white film: 10~20% additional developing time

Cheers,
Ruben

 

[jcline]

For b/w.. you can always stand develop in rodinol 1:100 for an hour. This is what I do when I have rolls of b/w that I have forgotten which bulk loader they came from.

 

[ed1k]

35k was the price of foto-65, but it could likely be the price of a multiuse metall cassette (plastic ones were for 0.20). If it's a soviet film it has to be in multiuse cassette 🙂 You can open it in a dark and get the leader out of cassette, if it's light gray it's likely a b&w film.

For developing of unknown b&w film, the better way in my opinion is to use dual bath developer, like diafine or
bath A
metol 5 g/l
sulfite 100 g/l
bath B
borax 10 g/l
Soap in bath A for 8 min and then in bath B for 8 min _without_ a water rinse in between.
HTH
Eduard

 

[ZorkiKat]

The old Svema (edge markings suggest that it was from 1991) I found loaded in a FED-1 I got was developed in Rodinal 1+100 for about 15 minutes at 24 C. Resulting negative came out nice and well and very printable.

 

[Igor.Burshteyn]

thanks a lot for your answers! I will try to get leader out of can.

 

[ZorkiKat]

One more thing: the reloadable cassette can be opened in the darkroom (or in a changing bag) to pull out some film. It can be resealed for more daylight handling😀