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ColColt · Jun 4, 2016

I was looking though some old boxes unmarked to see what was in them and discovered a partially exposed(14 shots indicated on the leader) roll of Agfapan 100. I'm not sure how old that roll is, maybe 20 years. Would you load it up, go past those first 14 shots a couple frames and shoot the rest and just see how things turn out or just toss it?

I have no idea what's on that roll or how it got stuck back but did consider shooting the rest at ASA 64 and developing with Rodinal.

Fixcinater · Jun 4, 2016

I'd shoot the rest and see what happens. If you toss it, you'll get nothing but a bit of time.

Bill Burk · Jun 4, 2016

I'd develop as-is because you never know where 14 really ends

ColColt · Jun 4, 2016

If I go a couple frames past from 14 it should be ok. It's a 36 exposure roll so, need something on the rest of it.

Theo Sulphate · Jun 4, 2016

Yes, I'd go a few frames past 14 and use the rest. It'll be fun to see what was on it.

ColColt · Jun 4, 2016

I hope its not my ex-wife on there!

Theo Sulphate · Jun 4, 2016

Like Schrödinger's cat, the images are simultaneously there and not there, ex-wife or not-ex-wife, and will remain in that state until the film is developed and the quantum superposition collapses.

Kirks518 · Jun 4, 2016

ColColt said:
I hope its not my ex-wife on there!

LOL!

paul ron · Jun 4, 2016

do it do it do it! id definatel process that roll regardless of finishing the roll or not.

its fun to see what was important to take pics of back then.

i have my family brownie burried away. when i took it out in a cleaning binge i saw an exposed roll of film underneath the cardboard bottom. 620 film, red backing paper from the 50s or 60s.

i developed it n found pix of us kids n my younger brother in the hospital nursery! woooooooo what a find.

ColColt · Jun 4, 2016

IIRC, the longest I ever went between exposure and developing was about two weeks. that was due to being on vacation for two weeks. I had fun when I got back home with many rolls of 120 and 35mm. I've never went 20+ years so, I don't know what to expect.

John Bragg · Jun 4, 2016

Hi David, develop it as is or finish it off. HC-110 is good for found films as it is low fog. Try dilution H and add 20-30% time or so for loss of speed with age. Good luck and please post some pics from it.

ColColt · Jun 4, 2016

John-I think I use to use Rodinal with this film...best I recall. Maybe in this case the Dil H would be a better bet and I have gotten excellent results with several films with it-why not? I'm sort of anxious to see what those first 14 frames were.

mehguy · Jun 4, 2016

The roll was shot half way through and then taken out of the camera? I never heard of anyone doing this...

Theo Sulphate · Jun 4, 2016

mehguy said:
The roll was shot half way through and then taken out of the camera? I never heard of anyone doing this...

That's because he doesn't have an Exakta with a built-in film knife, thereby necessitating the rewind.

"Back in the day," this is what people did.

ColColt · Jun 4, 2016

You have now. If for instance you want to check two cameras with the same film and don't want to expend two rolls to do so, it's an easy way. I can't recall why I did it in this case, however. Must have been some reason but 20 or so years ago I ain't going to remember.

gone · Jun 4, 2016

Might as well shoot it and adjust your developing times to anticipate lots of fog. Not much to lose and it might be fun if something does materialize. Unless it's the ex wife of course.

I've tried to wrap my mind around that cat thing and just think it's bull. The cat is dead, or not. Period. Yeah, yeah quantum physics and all that, but I am going w/ a Newtonian universe. Dead, not dead, the end. That's the world that all of us including the cat live in. Only Bela Lugosi's White Zombie is dead and yet not dead. That's a movie.

ColColt · Jun 4, 2016

Cat thing? What are you talking about?

gone · Jun 4, 2016

Schrödinger's cat that Theo mentioned. He theorized that possibly the images on the roll were there or not there until you developed them, like the cat that was dead and alive at the same time, supposedly. They were in a state of thereness and unthereness simultaneously. Existential quantum photography, that sort of thing. Might be a good name for a band.

bvy · Jun 4, 2016

John Bragg said:
Hi David, develop it as is or finish it off. HC-110 is good for found films as it is low fog. Try dilution H and add 20-30% time or so for loss of speed with age. Good luck and please post some pics from it.

Second that. HC-110 is great for found film. Hell, it's great for everything. I used it to develop film found in a Brownie that a friend of mine found somewhere in his parents' house. Worked beautifully. It does keep fog in check.

ColColt · Jun 4, 2016

I'm sure there's images there. What they'll look like after all this time is anyone's guess. I'll look up the developing times for HC-110 with this film(if that info is still around).

Theo Sulphate · Jun 4, 2016

Vielleicht er hat ein foto der Katze? - Perhaps he has a photo of the cat?

ColColt · Jun 4, 2016

Ich würde es gerne sehen

Theo Sulphate · Jun 4, 2016

I seem to remember a news article where film from a WWII soldier was found recently and developed. The images were very good. It always surprises me that latent images last so long.

canvassy · Jun 4, 2016

mehguy said:
The roll was shot half way through and then taken out of the camera? I never heard of anyone doing this...

I do this occasionally when I want to switch films half way through.

MattKing · Jun 5, 2016

mehguy said:
The roll was shot half way through and then taken out of the camera? I never heard of anyone doing this...

This was common in the days when most people had no more than a single camera, but still wanted to shoot multiple types of films.

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