srs5694
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A few months ago I picked up some long-expired Svema CND64 color print film and some even older Svema CO32D color slide film, thinking they might be fun to play with. Long story short, it took me a while to try the CO32D film, but after a test roll to determine EI (12 and 25 both looked fairly good, with 25 looking a bit better, so I settled on 20), I shot a regular roll.
The resulting transparencies have poor blacks, even though I used a lot of benzotriazole in the first developer to minimize fogging, and their color is off. Nonetheless, the images are very clear, and when I set the "restore fading" and "auto levels" color correction options in VueScan, the colors actually corrected to something fairly tolerable. If anybody cares to have a look, I've posted samples on Flickr, including both color-corrected and uncorrected scans of a few frames. Oh, the film is dated "02/1989," but I'm not sure if that's a manufacture date or an expiration date. I may actually be able to use my remaining rolls for something other than a conversation piece, although it certainly ain't Kodachrome or Velvia!
Maybe I'll try printing a couple of these on RA-4 paper using reversal processing of the paper. That might be interesting....
The resulting transparencies have poor blacks, even though I used a lot of benzotriazole in the first developer to minimize fogging, and their color is off. Nonetheless, the images are very clear, and when I set the "restore fading" and "auto levels" color correction options in VueScan, the colors actually corrected to something fairly tolerable. If anybody cares to have a look, I've posted samples on Flickr, including both color-corrected and uncorrected scans of a few frames. Oh, the film is dated "02/1989," but I'm not sure if that's a manufacture date or an expiration date. I may actually be able to use my remaining rolls for something other than a conversation piece, although it certainly ain't Kodachrome or Velvia!
Maybe I'll try printing a couple of these on RA-4 paper using reversal processing of the paper. That might be interesting....
