Processing film: Does anybody have any idea whether the film shown that has been exposed and has been sitting unprocessed in home interior conditions for approximately 17 or 18 years...

Frank47 Loc: West coast Florida

Does anybody have any idea whether the film shown that has been exposed and has been sitting unprocessed in home interior conditions for approximately 17 or 18 years will provide any kind of negative and therefore a print?

BebuLamar

You need to look at the end of the cassette. The symbol on the end of the cassette would be one of those on the side. One advantage of the APS is that you can tell if the film is unexposed, partially exposed, fully exposed or processed.

dhroberts Loc: Boston, MA, USA

Processing (but not printing) color negative film (which is what I assume those are) is pretty inexpensive, surely less than $10/roll. If that reveals images, then have prints made. You may have precious family images in those cartridges!

If you want more information on the likelihood of meaningful images, you might Google “latent image” and see what information is out there.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

Processing these film rolls will very likely produce negatives with images on them. How good the images will be is difficult to predict. Expect somewhat faded colors and diminished contrast. Examine the negatives before deciding to print.

sleeper54

What are these..?!? . . . .just kidding.

...tom...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Let us know how the processing turns out.

wvince

I found 10 of these rolls during a clean-up and they came out ok.

Dikdik Loc: Winnipeg, Canada

Last month I took in a spool of film that hadn't been processed; it was 20 years? old. The lab returned the negatives and a DVD with all the images. Scanned images were about 500 MB. Images were good with very little loss of colour. Cost was about $15. They were of a wedding my daughter had taken pictures of back then and she was pleased to get the photos. I found it in my dad's old camera bag and had no clue about what the film was about.

Dik

bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

Frank47 wrote:

Does anybody have any idea whether the film shown that has been exposed and has been sitting unprocessed in home interior conditions for approximately 17 or 18 years will provide any kind of negative and therefore a print?

Since the leaders are inside the cassettes, I would assume they have been exposed. I would take them to Costco for processing if you are a member because they are cheap and do a good job. Also, if you are unhappy with the results for any reason, they will refund your money.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Frank, you might get in touch with the person who posted this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I4o_afITKg, and see if they can help.
--Bob

Frank47 wrote:

Does anybody have any idea whether the film shown that has been exposed and has been sitting unprocessed in home interior conditions for approximately 17 or 18 years will provide any kind of negative and therefore a print?

ecurb1105

Frank47 wrote:

Does anybody have any idea whether the film shown that has been exposed and has been sitting unprocessed in home interior conditions for approximately 17 or 18 years will provide any kind of negative and therefore a print?

Yes, you can process the film and get decent images. Find a service that returns negatives as well as scans. My local Walgreens sends film out to process but does not return the negatives, just scans.

drmike99 Loc: Fairfield Connecticut

bpulv wrote:

Since the leaders are inside the cassettes, I would assume they have been exposed. I would take them to Costco for processing if you are a member because they are cheap and do a good job. Also, if you are unhappy with the results for any reason, they will refund your money.

These are APS cassettes. They look the same unexposed, exposed and processed. The leader is ALWAYS IN THE CASETTE. You have to read the code on the edge. The bottom cassette in the original posting shows you the code. “O” is unexposed, “X” is exposed and ready to be processed, and the rectangle means already processed and available for printing (circa 1998) or scanning (today). APS is NOT 35mm film.

Frank47 Loc: West coast Florida

I want to thank everyone who has taken the time to reply. I will report on how this turns out. These cassettes actually belong to my daughter and it is likely that I will take them to a local high-end photo store to see if they can return negatives as well as CD images.
By the way, someone replied about Costco and I have to say that I have used Costco in the past and have had excellent results.

Desmogger Loc: Annapolis, MD

The folks below did some film for me same thing found in a cabinet in the house 15 to 20 years old.

I would suggest simply mailing them to us in a small flat rate box from post office.

We can process and contact you for payment information once we see how many prints come out.

The fee for the processing is 10 per roll so if you want to write a check we can take that or just call for cc info once it is done.

Address is as follows:

National Photo

612 Reisterstown Rd

Pikesville, MD 21208