Hello all

Hi everyone, my name is Tiberiu and just recently, 5 years ago started learning developing my own film, been doing experiments with bnw, c41, ecn-2 and now got some expired stock from 1970, kodak 5251 emulsion, found out used to be developed in ecn-1 at 22 Celsius so I tried ECN-2 20C 22 minutes with a 7 min bleach/fix using the cinestill simplified kit but didn't have good results at all, negative very thin and grainy, tried at 41 and it completely wiped the film at 25 had images but all reticulated then tried a roll in D76 for 9 minutes and that worked great. Anyone have any suggestions on how to develop this film? would even go into mixing my own chemicals, found a small bottle of CD-2 on ebay assuming that was the one used back then, also I have a kit of orwo c9165 and c5168 I will be mixing soon to develop some old orwo film with, was thinking of trying a roll in that as well.
Thank you.

Welcome to Photrio Tiberiu! I think your question will get more responses if you post it over at the Color section of the forum.

I'm not sure I would hold much hope for a color film stock last produced back in 1969 - that's a long time ago for sure. Perhaps develop in a B&W developer and then see if you can get some color by bleaching it back and reprocessing snippets in several color formulas. Sorry, no concrete experience here with this particular film stock.

Feel free to create a new thread on your question where I indicated and see what the community comes up with!

Welcome to Photrio. Developing old films can be fun but don't use it for any important stuff, better then perhaps to take pictures with more recent and reliable films. You will however find a lot of answers here at Photrio.

Hi koraks, thanks for the reply, will definitely post in the color section as well, Jesper I agree, it has been fun and hope to make it a thing shoot important stuff on expired tested stocks, I purchased 4 200ft rolls of this emulsion, another 590ft re-can of kodak 5297 that looks amazing at iso32 processed in ecn-2, and a bunch of ORWO as well as other stocks, one was not so good, it wasn't all gravy, so far 80% decent, anyways attaching a few examples here developed in D76 and in ECN-2

Welcome.