Quite a while back, I acquired a pair of rolls of very expired Kodak Vericolor II ProS, in 120 size. Having shot and developed the first roll as C-41, with the result of very pale images, I turned instead to caffenol to develop the second roll. This resulted in nearly totally opaque film -- even using my cell phone's flashlight just barely allowed me to see the images on the film.
Not having a reducer at the time (and still not having proper reducer), these rolls sat for about a year and a half until I finished a run of C-41 developing and came up with what I thought was a clever idea: use the C-41 Blix as an impromptu reducer! I ended up using full strength Blix and constant agitation for 5 minutes, followed by further fixing with Ilford Rapid Fix. These are my results:
Of course, I suspect that this worked as "well" as it did because it was so severely overdeveloped. I felt pretty safe to experiment in this way because I could see that the negatives had the imprint from the 120 backing paper as it was, so just having useful negatives was a positive. I think it gives a nice nostalgic vibe, but that could just be my feeling of the year as a whole. Maybe someone here will find this useful.
Kodak Vericolor II ProS (ISO 100?)
Overexposed +2 in camera
Developed 15:00 in Caffenol
Reduced with full-strength C-41 Blix, 5:00
Fixed with Ilford Rapid Fix
Not having a reducer at the time (and still not having proper reducer), these rolls sat for about a year and a half until I finished a run of C-41 developing and came up with what I thought was a clever idea: use the C-41 Blix as an impromptu reducer! I ended up using full strength Blix and constant agitation for 5 minutes, followed by further fixing with Ilford Rapid Fix. These are my results:
Of course, I suspect that this worked as "well" as it did because it was so severely overdeveloped. I felt pretty safe to experiment in this way because I could see that the negatives had the imprint from the 120 backing paper as it was, so just having useful negatives was a positive. I think it gives a nice nostalgic vibe, but that could just be my feeling of the year as a whole. Maybe someone here will find this useful.
Kodak Vericolor II ProS (ISO 100?)
Overexposed +2 in camera
Developed 15:00 in Caffenol
Reduced with full-strength C-41 Blix, 5:00
Fixed with Ilford Rapid Fix
