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Dear Seabee,

If its not boxed it probably came from a PP50 ( Press pack ) If you send me the code that is on the wrapper I should be able to find out when it was made.

Simon ILFORD Photo / HARMAN technology Limited :

 

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Have you noticed how those round circles are in the same spot on all the negs? Probably not the film.

 

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Thomas Bertilsson said:

Have you noticed how those round circles are in the same spot on all the negs? Probably not the film.

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Actually, I was talking about these pfotographs:

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and you'll notice that they are not in the same spot. I wouldn't say it's the film either. Age fogging would probably be uniform AFAIK. My first thought was that seabee caused this somehow, but it can be something totally irrelevant. These might be reflections from moving objects like watches. If that's the case, then false alarm.

 

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I see what you mean now. Does the attachment highlight it? Red for the round spots, yellow for the ones I were referring to.

- Thomas

 

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Yes Thomas, that's what I was talking about.

 

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• Nov 18, 2008

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Hi,

Put a roll of expired Ilford HP5 Plus 400 through today.

<Expired in may 1992.

Light meter reading was 125 to 22.

That brought this

 

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Then tried 125 / 16

 

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At 125 / 11 it looks better

 

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Tried the same here...

As per light meter on 22

 

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half a stop difference...

 

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at 16

 

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another half a stop

 

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And at 11

 

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I think the half a stop between 11 and 16 is best?

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• Nov 23, 2008

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Seabee said:

I think the half a stop between 11 and 16 is best?

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Seabee, in your first shots posted, I think the +1 stop one looks best for the scene (2nd photo you posted). It's a tossup between +1 and +2.

 

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If I were shooting known long-expired film, I would develop it in Dektol (D-72) at 1:1 at 50-75% the D-76 stock time to try to save it. That said, my experiments with such film have yielded no effects that could reasonably be construed as "desirable." Basically you get very low contrast images you try to save by development and get high grain as the price. It's an effect you could reproduce on non-expired film through underdevelopment.