Gaf Pro B&W Film Type 2863

[spoolman]

Just recently picked up a 100 sheet box of this film in 4x5.The instruction sheet states that it is a high speed (ASA 500) fine grain polyester based B&W film for many uses.The suggested developers are all GAF. and I'm looking for modern day equivalents.They are Isodol and Hyfinol.The Isodol is recommended for General photography used straight and diluted 1:1 for Portraits.The Hyfinol is recommended for fine grain.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Doug

 

[Photo Engineer]

Doug;

This film is Soooooo outdated. I don't think that the developer would really matter. And, all things being relative, fine grain to GAF was not fine grain to the rest of the world back then. Look at this: http://photo.net/film-and-processing-forum/00N6ph

Look at the last post there. It kinda tells it all.

To be more specific, try here: http://photo.net/black-and-white-photo-film-processing-forum/00YYEN

PE

 

[spoolman]

Thank for the advice ,Ron.I used to work at BGM Colour Labs here in Toronto and we used to get slide film in GAF 35 mm cassettes which were reloadable.But the odd one would come through with GAF film in it When we ran it through our E-4 dip and dunk, the emulsion came off and draped itself over the following hangers ruining that film

Thanks again,

Doug

 

[Photo Engineer]

GAF films were designed for a 75 F process. The E4 process would have done bad things to it probably. They were totally different beasts.

PE

 

[cmacd123]

Thank for the advice ,Ron.I used to work at BGM Colour Labs here in Toronto and we used to get slide film in GAF 35 mm cassettes which were reloadable.But the odd one would come through with GAF film in it When we ran it through our E-4 dip and dunk, the emulsion came off and draped itself over the following hangers ruining that film
Doug

When I was a kid, 1060's Ansco/Gaf Colour slide was touted as being very Home process friendly. GAF made a 16oz kit for home processing and mentioned the low temperature and relatively loose temperature requirements.

They also had a small gizmo called an "easy Loader" which had 5 lengths of 20 exposure colour slide film and came with empty red Ansco chrome cassettes, so you could have the fun of "spooling your own film".

One of the saddest times when I was working at Eatons Camera department was when a young lad picked up his blank film, he has loaded tri-x in a Anscochrome cassette as they were plentiful at the time, and just stuck a small dymo label to say it was Tri-x. The lab we used was proud of there 24 hour slide service, and so not noticing the label sent the nice red cassette with all the other nice red cassettes to the anscochrome reversal line. You could just see a hint of an image on the poor lads film, probably some contamination in the developer allowed some dye to form.

I recall that Ansco packed in the towel rather than making a C-41 colour film.

As far as 40 year old 500 ISO film, even if it was frozen, the experiment would be more of an academic interest rather than expecting good results. at least it is black and white so you should be able to use your favourite current developer.