Technical Pan 6415 questions

[j-dogg]

I've been hoarding 3 rolls of this stuff for a mega-road trip with my RB67 outfit and that is finally happening.

How good is the Technidol powder developer brand new after 30 years of storage.....and same with the film? Should I expose at ASA 16? Are there other developers I can use with it? I plan on doing landscapes on it and not any of that crazy high contrast stuff people get when they develop it in D76

The rest of the lot of ISO 100 Tmax from about the same time came out okay, two of these are factory sealed and one is not.

 

[Paul Verizzo]

wow, there's some of that still film around?

If the developer is in sealed packets or cans, I'd think it's just fine.

Many have use POTA with Tech Pan. But I'd go with the Real Deal.

 

[Mick Fagan]

To be honest, you really have to suck it and see.

I have one packet of unopened Kodak Technidol left, which contains 6 sachets of liquid developer to make 237ml of go juice. Cat No. 108 3849. Last year I gave one whole packet to a friend who had about 10 to 20 sheets of Tech Pan film to shoot and develop. Kept in her freezer for the last 20 years.

She mixed up one batch, didn't look good, fortunately the other two satchets were perfect, allowing her to develop her film.

Mick.

 

[DREW WILEY]

Formulary still sells an excellent Tech Pan developer. When Kodak first announced discontinuance of Tech Pan, that was when their shelf inventories were starting to thin out. Their actual last coating was almost a decade earlier! So this stuff seems to keep pretty well. I sure
hope so. I have two full thick boxes of 8x10 left. I use it for pan highlight masking (versus ortho-litho masking). Like everyone else, I once
experimented with it as a pictorial film, mostly in 120. It worked OK, just OK. And it was a valuable film for certain forensic art photography and antique photo restoration/reproduction purposes prior to today's easier digital techniques. Depending on your developer I would try anything from ASA 12 to 25, so 16 ain't a bad guess. Formulary has a tip sheet for their own developers.

 

[GregW]

Seconding the recommendation of the formulary's TD-3. Works great. Use the developing protocol they suggest to the letter. I've also used it on Arista Ortho to tame the contrast.

 

[Gerald C Koch]

Using old film on a meaningful road trip does not sound like a smart idea to me. Stick with what you usually use and leave the experimentation at home.

 

[removed account4]

hey j-dogg

i hate to say this, but...
if you can spare a roll ...
shoot it ( or part of it ! ) before your trip to give yourself a baseline
of what to expect ... don't use your old developer but buy the formulary-stuff.
if you shoot your film and developer blind who knows what might happen ...
some say it is crazy to use expired / stored film but i say ...
shoot and process your film and have a blast !

john

 

[Nodda Duma]

Makes me long for more Tech Pan. I used the last of mine 6 years ago

 

[darkosaric]

I have couple of rolls still in the fridge, and Technidol liquid developer. Tested Widelux that I borrowed from a friend last week: that is a nice combination - Widelux and TP.

 

[Simon R Galley]

I'm with Gerald.....!

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