All black negatives from developed roll

[Donald Qualls]

My understanding is/was that OP had blank black film, and that is all I was referring to. Printing good enough is another matter.

At whatever point the age fog overwhelms the highlight exposure of the image, you'll get blank, black film.

 

[Brownie_Holiday]

Here you go. I received the results of my two rolls from the Darkroom today. I am posting this with no processing in deference to the forum rules. If a mod feels it's out of place and needs to remove it, that's fine. I think it's pertinent to the discussion.

Of the two rolls, one can be dated to the 1980's and the other to the late 1990's. Based on that, I know they were taken with a Minolta Maxxum 7000 and likely a 35-70 f/4. The older roll is badly fogged but the images are recoverable to some degree. The newer roll is in better condition by a good margin. We keep our house around 68 in the winter. In the summer, if it gets to 95 deg. F and high humidity, then that's what these rolls were subject to since we don't have A/C.

This photo is from the late 90's roll, so a little over 2 decades since it was exposed and stored. It is exactly as they processed it. I have done nothing to it other than download and post.

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This was from a school field trip with my son. Many of the photos are of family and pets no longer with us. Of the 48 exposures, I have about 35 that can be used. Cost was $30 for both rolls, which translates to $0.86 U.S. per usable photo. Is it worth the time and money to recover family memories? Absofreakinlutely.

 

[BrianShaw]

Yay!

 

[MattKing]

Here you go. I received the results of my two rolls from the Darkroom today. I am posting this with no processing in deference to the forum rules. If a mod feels it's out of place and needs to remove it, that's fine. I think it's pertinent to the discussion.

Thanks for posting this.
For clarity, no-one on this forum is going to complain if you digitally adjust cropping, exposure, contrast, colour balance or anything else you would normally have to do to make your photos presentable.
If you are trying to abide by analogue only rules, the rule of thumb is that you can do anything that you would have to do anyways if you were printing something in a darkroom.
In some parts of the site, those rules don't apply anyways.
In the case of this thread, where the interest is in how damaged the film is, it probably helps to minimize the adjustments.

 

[Wallendo]

I have had this experience once ... with a roll of Kodak C-41 film shot around 1980 or so. I found it about 30 years later. It had been stored in my old room in my parents house - a part of the house which was not air-conditioned or heated routinely. It was completely black - even when scanned. A roll of Kodachrome was also fogged, but had recoverable, although low quality, images.

 

[Brownie_Holiday]

Thanks for posting this.
For clarity, no-one on this forum is going to complain if you digitally adjust cropping, exposure, contrast, colour balance or anything else you would normally have to do to make your photos presentable.
If you are trying to abide by analogue only rules, the rule of thumb is that you can do anything that you would have to do anyways if you were printing something in a darkroom.
In some parts of the site, those rules don't apply anyways.
In the case of this thread, where the interest is in how damaged the film is, it probably helps to minimize the adjustments.

Thanks for that. I tried to abide by the rules as I read them. Being new I didn't want people to think I didn't give a rat's fat.