Identifying Film: pre-processing?

[avidmaster]

Hi All,

Recently returned to bulk loading film for cost and convenience. I love how nice it is to simply roll off a short roll of film to go out and shoot. I have an Alden 74 loader and it works great. Loaded with Ultrafine Extreme 400, off I go. I decided that it would be nice to have a choice of stock so I recently acquired a second Alden 74 from eBay at a great price. When it arrived, I discovered that it was already loaded with something like 100 ft. of something... I have no idea what stock is loaded but it would nice to know and maybe shoot some.

Question: Besides processing for the latent image edge numbers and film ID, is there anyway to figure out what is loaded? And is there a universal developing process that I can use just to get to those latent IDs regardless of B&w or color?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Mike

 

[retinax]

Black and white developer should get something from any film stock, enough the read the edge markings. But you can identify colour neg film by the orange mask.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Cut 15 frames, develop as regular 400 bw. Read the edge, google it. I never did slide, but C-41, ECN-2 will develop in bw chemistry.

 

[avidmaster]

Thanks all. I’ll run the stock later this week.

Mike


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