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Rescuing unbleached E6 film

Mozg31337

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Hello,

I have two 120 films which came very dark from the development process (including the film brand/make part of the film). If I look at the film under a bright source, I can see the traces of frames with details. My thoughts are that the bleach that I had gone bad.

I was wondering if it is possible to bleach the film even after it has gone through the fixer? Or is this film pretty much unreachable?

Thanks
Andrei
 
Do the following:

Wet for 1 minute at 100F.
Follow your kit's instructions from prebleach or bleach if there is no prebleach onward.
Dry.

If there is no improvement, then it is probably underexposure.

PE
 
Thanks PE, I will try that and send an update )
 
Allow me to add, that each bleach step has to be followed by a wash and a fixing step.

Three errors can lead to dark slides: underexposure, underdevelopment and incomplete bleaching. These three can be distinguished easily:
  1. underexposure yields dark slides, but normal frame numbers and a transparent or at most light brown film leader.
  2. underdevelopment yields dark slides, dark frame numbers, but a noticeably brighter film leader
  3. incomplete bleaching leaves everything very dark, since a slide after FD and CD has silver all over the place, regardless of exposure
 
Hi Rudeofus,

From the looks of it I've got number 3 in my case.
 
If it's underbleached, the rebate code on the edge of the film should also be very dark and only visible under bright light
 
I've not done the rebleaching yet. Will try to find time over the weekend and will keep you updated.
 
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