Kodacolor 2 from 1975 as black and white neg?

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• Jan 18, 2011

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I've recently run across one roll of 35mm and one roll of 616 film found in older cameras that has been exposed and looks well intact. Could anyone give me some advice as to how to go about developing this as a black and white negative? I have developed Kodak Ultramax 800 in Acufine developer with good results, as well as 200ISO films and Kodak's CN400.
I understand that using C41 chemistry is out of the question for films this old. Does anyone have a reccomendation for starting times and temps and developers?
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• Jan 18, 2011

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Over exposure is recoverable by way of flattening the gamma down with digital manipulation once scanned. So I would go for over development on plain D76, straight. Perhaps 12 minutes as a starting point?

There is a found film in old cameras web site I stumble across from time to time, where there may be developing information. Sorry I cannot find development detials on it: http://westfordcomp.com/

 

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• Jan 19, 2011

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Mike Wilde said:

Perhaps 12 minutes as a starting point?

There is a found film in old cameras web site I stumble across from time to time, where there may be developing information. Sorry I cannot find development detials on it: http://westfordcomp.com/

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THanks Mike, I'll definitely look into this website.

 

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• Jan 21, 2011

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• Jan 25, 2011

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C-41 processing is not out of the question. Develop-only for C-41 at my neighborhood camera store is something like $3.50. So do that with the 35mm roll, Kodacolor II is the first C-41 film. Yeah, the colors will be way off, but that's it.

Any dip & dunk lab can process the 616 roll, but depending on the depth of their tanks they may need to cut it into two pieces.

The color dyes in Kodacolor II won't be long-term stable unless you run them through a final rinse containing formaldehyde.

 

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• Jan 26, 2011

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Well, since i'll be doing this at home, i guess its more likely up to me. The regular c41 stabilizer should be fine.