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.
Thank you.
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
