Chogoria, Mount Kenya 1994 circa 6,000ft
Svenedin

Chogoria, Mount Kenya 1994 circa 6,000ft

An experiment in re-washing film. I developed this film in 1994 but I never printed it. It was left in a drawer, uncut and I found it last week filthy and creased. It was clear that any technique based on wiping the film would cause damage. Also playing with scan settings.
Location
Mount Kenya
Equipment Used
Olympus OM4-Ti, 50mm OM Zuiko f1.8 (standard lens)
Exposure
Not known
Film & Developer
Kodak T-Max 5053 (400?)
Paper & Developer
Probably T-Max Dev
Lens Filter
none
So the re-washing in tap water and Ilfotol has helped a lot. It also helped with some of the sharp creases which became last noticeable as the film dried with a weight attached to the bottom of the film. Negatives are still dirty. Scan settings are not right. This one scanned in 24 bit colour which has picked up grease on the film as a bluish mark (like oil on water). Would have been better in grayscale. Scanner, Epson V800. I knew re-washing might have resulted in catastrophe but I got away with it.
 
Bravo Svenedin. I've had disasters on negs that were important & had no clue what could and could not be re-done. Thanks for posting.
 
Very nice image and great that you were able to recover it, even if is is "just" a scan. :smile:

I won't complain about my local roads any more!
 
If it had been of great sentimental value I would have scanned the film "as is" so at least I had something and then tried the re-wash. Those are Kenyan army chaps standing on the Land Rover. A few hundred yards up the road they were well and truly stuck and not looking so pleased with themselves. We pulled them out but then our Land Rover caught fire....

Yes only a scan but that is how it will have to be going forward. I no longer have a room suitable as a darkroom so printing is not possible. Developing film on the other hand is fine using a changing bag for the obligatory dark stages. Having said that, I don't think I would cope with loading films on spiral reels in a changing bag if I hadn't learned how to do it in the space of a darkroom first.
 

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