typicalaussiebloke
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G'day all.
I recently got my hands on some an ultra vintage 6x9cm Kodak Premo Film Pack manufactured in 1912, expiration date 1st October 1913. I of course wanted to shoot this film seeing if it still works so under safe light I taped a sheet inside my 1920s Kodak Hawkeye 2A Model B 116 camera and having to guess how much to overexpose I made 30 sec at f-11 in sunny weather as a starting point and took a photograph of some WW2 anti-tank pyramids at Port Kembla Harbour. Under safe light I developed the film sheet in Caffenol C Delta for 11 min at 20 deg C and fixed for 5 min and was very happy to see the image form on this 102 year old film!!! Then I realized the film was solarized so that was way too much exposure but made a cool solarize effect on that exposure! A few days later I shot my 2nd exposure, this time at f-16 for 15 sec photographing Port Kembla Harbour. I developed for 10 min and fixed for 5 min and got a very nice negative without solarization so I was really pleased!!!
There was some deterioration to the emulsion showing sooty black spots but otherwise the film worked extremely well for being over a century old!!! Below are a couple of snaps of the exposures I did and those who want to see the scans of them on Flickr here is the link to the album https://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N08/sets/72157647424096839/ . I am now at a point that I am confident I can make any film from the 1910s to the 1930s work using exposure time of 10-15 sec in sunny weather at f-16 aperture, I seem to get consistent results using such exposure times with the films I've shot from those eras! 
I recently got my hands on some an ultra vintage 6x9cm Kodak Premo Film Pack manufactured in 1912, expiration date 1st October 1913. I of course wanted to shoot this film seeing if it still works so under safe light I taped a sheet inside my 1920s Kodak Hawkeye 2A Model B 116 camera and having to guess how much to overexpose I made 30 sec at f-11 in sunny weather as a starting point and took a photograph of some WW2 anti-tank pyramids at Port Kembla Harbour. Under safe light I developed the film sheet in Caffenol C Delta for 11 min at 20 deg C and fixed for 5 min and was very happy to see the image form on this 102 year old film!!! Then I realized the film was solarized so that was way too much exposure but made a cool solarize effect on that exposure! A few days later I shot my 2nd exposure, this time at f-16 for 15 sec photographing Port Kembla Harbour. I developed for 10 min and fixed for 5 min and got a very nice negative without solarization so I was really pleased!!!
There was some deterioration to the emulsion showing sooty black spots but otherwise the film worked extremely well for being over a century old!!! Below are a couple of snaps of the exposures I did and those who want to see the scans of them on Flickr here is the link to the album https://www.flickr.com/photos/51853869@N08/sets/72157647424096839/ . I am now at a point that I am confident I can make any film from the 1910s to the 1930s work using exposure time of 10-15 sec in sunny weather at f-16 aperture, I seem to get consistent results using such exposure times with the films I've shot from those eras! 
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