Questions about Kodak RPC film

Well, today in the old photo lab of the city museum, I got 4 or five (and there is still a box full of) kodak rapid process copy film (RPC). For what the person that gave it to me said, he use this film to do b&w slides and developed has a normal bw film. But forgot to ask the iso that he used, developer and time.
What I manage to get after looking in the net, this film has iso 4 or less; and possible developer was DK-50!

Anyone knows this film and developer? Any modern developer equivalent? Can one person develop this film with other developers like rodinal? :rolleyes:

PS: Find out that DK-50 is not a old developer...

Rhodes said:

Well, today in the old photo lab of the city museum, I got 4 or five (and there is still a box full of) kodak rapid process copy film (RPC). Anyone knows this film and developer? Any modern developer equivalent? Can one person develop this film with other developers like rodinal? :rolleyes:

Click to expand...

RPC 35mm film was used for making 'projection slides' from autoradiographs on a light box.
It is estar based and has an ISO of about 0.06 and, from a rapidly declining memory, can be developed in DK50 for about 6 - 8 minutes DK50 1:1 at 20° C. i would have to hunt for and find my old notebook in order to give you definitive developing instructions. If my memory serves me well enough it is quite 'forgiving' in processing... and EXTREMELY fine grained

It was designed for rapid processing in Kodak's X-Omat machine.

When 'working', I went through dozens of 100 foot rolls and I believe I still have a 100 foot roll buried deep in my freezer.

The film base is rather 'blue' to meet the needs of radiographers who are/were more accustomed to seeing the blue base of x-ray film. I also used it for making cheapy QLAB B/W slides from B/W prints when clients could not 'afford' the time for an Ektachrome to be processed in-house.

Ken

Thank you Ken! Since now I only have rodinal for developing, I asked if this film could be developed in it, or in other developer from ilford or kodak (besides the dk-50). If not, will try to find it!