Color neg film rescue development in B/W

AnselMortensen

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Hi,
I'm trying to help a friend out...
He gave me a roll of film to process that has everything wrong with it.
It was torn out of the cassette, rolled up in a Tri-X film can, and the film was folded over as if the rewind knob was turned the wrong way.
Aaaaand....it's color neg, NOT Tri-X.
I found this out after I (amazingly) got it on the stainless steel reel and in the tank.
I'm not set up for C-41 processing.
I will be trying my best to get 'something' out of this mess for my friend, but need a starting point 'Best Guess' time/temperature/dilution for developing this mess in Rodinal.
What say you, Panel of Experts?
Somebody has to have done this before...
Thanks!
 

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Do you happen to know what ISO film it is? You could find a b&w film with the same iso (or close to it) & use that dev time.
 

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I had shot a few rolls of Kodak 50D & developed it in Legacy Pro L110 (was using the last few ml of the bottle) & fixed it in Photographers Formulary TF5. I used Ilford Pan F+ time in Dilution E (1:47) & I did get images out of it.
 

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Unless the film is very old, any lab that develops it C41 will get better results than you will with Rodinal. Scans can always be converted to b&w.
 
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The film was an old version of Fujicolor 200...since the film was out of the cassette, I suspect it is light-struck, in addition to all its other problems.
Not worth sending out to a lab.
Neither my friend nor I have much expectation of success from this, and whatever 'might' be on the film is non-critical...
I will roll the dice and go for it, extrapolating from @Disconnekt 's information.
Thanks!
 
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Disconnekt said:
I had shot a few rolls of Kodak 50D & developed it in Legacy Pro L110 (was using the last few ml of the bottle) & fixed it in Photographers Formulary TF5. I used Ilford Pan F+ time in Dilution E (1:47) & I did get images out of it.
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Very helpful, thank you!
 

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I recently did the same with a roll of Kodak Gold 200 of unknown vintage. Soaked in plain water for 5 mins, then Rodinal 1+25 @20° for 12 mins. It worked.
 
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