Developing Kodak Ektacolor 400 Pro Gold.

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I picked up a few 120mm rolls of the Kodak Ektacolor 400 Pro Gold. Date is 2000 and no idea how they have been stored.

The oldest roll I ever developed was in a second hand camera I found and still had some pictures from the late 70-ies on them They came out quite grainy, I just developed as per standard procedures with the Tetenal C-41 kit and followed the Tetenal Kit developing times.

Now, is there anything I need to do different when I shoot this roll of Kodak Ektacolor 400? Do some EI correction perhaps or just boxspeed?

And with development, do I prewash? (actually I never prewash color, I don't do that much C-41, not no if needed) and just follow standard development times with the Tetenal Kit, or adjust any of the times cause this is an older film.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Athiril]

I always pre-soak my C-41, that's my habit. I've pulled to as short as 2 minutes (38.7c) to compensate for some shitty film, though tetenal has an ~8min time for lower temp, if you want to do a heavy overexpose + pull, that lower time minus a few min would be the go.

Also I imagine film of that age will need an actual stabiliser in the final bath.

If you got enough rolls of it, a test roll at different exposures in standard processing would help determine if you should try to overexpose and pull.

 

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Also I imagine film of that age will need an actual stabiliser in the final bath.

Thanks. But what do you mean with this? The Tetenal Kit has a stab included...

 

[Athiril]

I don't know whats in the Tetenal stabiliser. Stabiliser stabilises the dye in films, C-41 films have had it built in since about 2000 (read this from PE elsewhere on APUG), so they don't need it in that sense, but they need anti-fungal/bacterial and drying agent etc.


Okay I managed to find my old bottle of tetenal colortec stabiliser from the C-41 kit when I had it a few years ago.

It says it's Hexamethylene-Tetramine, so it should be fine as a stabiliser for old films too afaik. Someone else could possibly confirm that. This just effects longetivity of your negs, and how long before they start fading away.

 

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Oh, that last mentioned stuff I have.

Well, I think I should just give it a go instead of philosophing about it