How about Kodak Super-XX?

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I just picked up some rolls of film. The expire date says January 1952! What do you think, should work just fine anyway? :D :D
 
Yes, those canisters looks way cooler than the plastic thingies they sell us today. Is that green one "FORD" an Ilford film? What kind of film is it?

/Håkan
 
It's an Illford HP3. This canister is empty though, but the Kodaks still have the rolls inside. The Super XX is just film covered in black paper without any cartridge. There where more Illfords at the shop, but I didn't check the canisters. All the canisters are aluminium. Very neat :)
 
I have developed Kodachrome (original) some 25 years out-of-date. Some black spots, but overall it worked. B&W has a better chance. Don't expect like new results, but expect an image. You may try shooting it at 1/2~2/3 of its original rating.

Post the results.
 
Very unlikely you'll get anything but age fog. You have a less than 1% chance of getting anything but fog. Even if you use orthozite you won't have anything usable. The only chance is if the film has been frozen for that long and that's unlikely.

If you want to shoot super-xx just give bergger 200 a try or fomapan 200. Both are remakes of the original super-xx. I use these films and process with DK-50 and shoot in my IIIC with uncoated lenses to get that vintage look. It will take you back to the 40's and 50's with the look.


Brian, how did you get 25 year old Kodachrome run. The process is different than it was twenty five years earlier. I don't think any one process for kodachrome has lbeen the same for twenty five years.


http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=5045
 
My dad used to say that Super-XX and Verichrome ortho were the best films ever made, but of course he was referring to the 620/120 versions. What size is that Super-XX. It almost looks like 828/bantam.
 
I don't plan to use the films really, they where at a junk-shop I looked into yesterday. He had a bunch and they looked cool at 5 SEK each (50 cents) so i got three of them. I also got a Rollei slide projector and some new glas slide frames for a very good price. The guy looked happy that anyone was buing the stuff of him...one mans junk is the next mans pearls :)

I dont know what 828/bantam is, but I think they're all just 35mm's. A funny observation on the topic: He had a compact camera using Kodak photo disc. This must shurely be the weirdest and most short lived format ever launched??

Anders
 
828 or "Bantam" film is/was unperforated 35mm on rolls instead of cartridges, with a backing paper. Kodak had a whole bunch of cameras for this film. My mom had a bantam folding camera which took this. I think this film died in the 70's. I know that some of the color bantam film came in metal containers that were similar to the old Kodak metal containters but smaller in diameter.
 
Anders, give me the location of the junk shop, I live in Uppsala and go to Stockholm every now and then. I would like to pick one or two Ilford canisters. (I will probably go in a couple of weeks to fetch my TLR from the repair shop, not that it is broken, it is being given a brighter focus screen.)

/Håkan
 
x-ray said:
If you want to shoot super-xx just give bergger 200 a try or fomapan 200. Both are remakes of the original super-xx. I use these films and process with DK-50 and shoot in my IIIC with uncoated lenses to get that vintage look. It will take you back to the 40's and 50's with the look.
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What happens if I use these with a modern lens? Put another way, do I need an uncoated lens to get the "most" out of it?

/Håkan
 
There's no problem shooting super-xx clones in any camera or with modern lenses. I just like that nostalgic look of the old emulsion and lenses. I've even loaded a 1930 box camera with it and love the soft images spotted with light from leaks around the seals and the flare from the single element lens. It's beautiful!

Super-xx is a very good film with almost neutral color sensitivity. It was used as a color seperation film in the graphic arts business untill drum scanners came along. It's not particularly fine grain but it responds extremely well to + and - developement and tonality is stunning. It now has become a favorite of many large format art shooters.

I particularly like the vintage look of it shot with uncoated lenses and run in the old classic DK-50. Give it a try and see how you like it. Don't expect fine grain but do expect beautiful tonality.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=5045
 
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x-ray said:
If you want to shoot super-xx just give bergger 200 a try or fomapan 200. Both are remakes of the original super-xx. I use these films and process with DK-50 and shoot in my IIIC with uncoated lenses to get that vintage look. It will take you back to the 40's and 50's with the look.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=5045
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I think you meant Fortepan 200 (rumored to be identical to Bergger film)?

Fomapan 200 is a very modern T-grain emulsion (like Kodak TMax) - it was even called T200 before Kodak made Foma change that name...

Roman
 
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