Ever heard of "2-Brownie" film?

[mjs]

I got a roll (120 sized) of what's labeled "2-BROWNIE" film by Kodak in a box. It appears to be exposed and I want to develop it. Any guesses as to time in straight or 1:1 D-76? It's probably been in a garage for 50 years. Literally!

Mike

 

[Paul Verizzo]

I got a roll (120 sized) of what's labeled "2-BROWNIE" film by Kodak in a box. It appears to be exposed and I want to develop it. Any guesses as to time in straight or 1:1 D-76? It's probably been in a garage for 50 years. Literally!

Mike

Try Diafine. You can never really screw it up.

 

[Akki14]

I second the diafine thing. I've always used it for unknown films. Because it develops just to completion, you can feel you did your best and developed it just long enough. Haven't had huge issues with basefog but have only done films from the 1970s or so.
No. 2 Brownies were in production from 1901 to 1935 http://www.brownie-camera.com/53.shtml I've taken quite a lot of pictures using them in the present day. Unfortunately I've found that found-films don't always mean they were exposed by the best snapshot photographers so you may get very underexposed images from shooting in poor light etc.

 

[Simon R Galley]

Our standard reply for ancient exposed films is 10 mins in ID11 ( D76 )

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