Old Film (Page 2): You can still get Ilford XP2 Super Black and White Negative Film (ISO 400) from B&H. It's pretty much the same as the Kodak version. Dale Laboratories in Hollywood...

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

Scruples wrote:

I can only find expired rolls but you need to modify the ASA setting on the camera now.

You can still get Ilford XP2 Super Black and White Negative Film (ISO 400) from B&H. It's pretty much the same as the Kodak version.

Dale Laboratories in Hollywood, FL can develop it and mail the negatives to you.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

MrPhotog wrote:

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Let the lab know it is old film. Push processing may help….

Forgive my naïveté. I have never heard of push processing. Is there such a thing? How about pull processing or Push/Pull processing?

When ever I developed a roll of film it was without effects. I have included receipts from way back when.

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

Scruples wrote:

Forgive my naïveté. I have never heard of push processing. Is there such a thing? How about pull processing or Push/Pull processing?

When ever I developed a roll of film

When you push film by extending development it increases the contrast which allows you to assume a higher ISO. It also reduces the dynamic range (DR). Pulling does the opposite.

Chromogenic film has an inherently wide DR so you can adjust the contrast during the scanning/post processing stage.

BebuLamar

Scruples wrote:

Forgive my naïveté. I have never heard of push processing. Is there such a thing? How about pull processing or Push/Pull processing?

When ever I developed a roll of film

Yes there is both push and pull processing. push processing is to over develop by develop the film longer to compensate for underexposure. Pull processing is the reverse, develop for shorter time to compensate for overexposure. I did it back in the late 70's because the fastest slide film was only 200 so I need to push for high speed. Today I would never want push or pull as both have negative effect on the quality. If I need high ISO I shoot digital. I now only use 160 film as the fastest.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

selmslie wrote:

….Ilford XP2 Super Black and White Negative Film (ISO 400)…..

When Kodak stopped making CN400, a friend told me about this film. I tried two rolls But it didn’t ignite my love for the Ilford version of film.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

BebuLamar wrote:

Yes there is both push and pull processing. push processing is to over develop by develop the film longer to compensate for underexposure. Pull processing is the reverse, develop for shorter time to compensate for overexposure. I did it back in the late 70's because the fastest slide film was only 200 so I need to push for high speed. Today I would never want push or pull as both have negative effect on the quality. If I need high ISO I shoot digital. I now only use 160 film as the fastest.

Thank you for taking the time to edumacate this cranky old coot!

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

When ever I developed a roll of film it was without special effects. I have included receipts from way back when.

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Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

On a side note, I came across this book.

It is “Making KODAK Film: The Illustrated Story of State-of-the-art Photographic Film Manufacturing” by Robert L. Shanebrook.

It does get a little technical but it is a nice read. It is a worthwhile book!! When you can’t photograph it is nice to read about doing it.

MrPhotog

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Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

MrPhotog wrote:

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Artcameraman Loc: Springfield NH

First, are the films yours? Should you process them if you think they belonged to other members of the family that are now deceased? Do you really want to see your parents doing...

BebuLamar

Artcameraman wrote:

First, are the films yours? Should you process them if you think they belonged to other members of the family that are now deceased? Do you really want to see your parents doing...

In fact I would want to process them if they were not taken by me. If I took the pictures I would pretty well know what's on them and if I didn't bother to process them then that was because I thought I didn't get anything worthwhile.

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

Artcameraman wrote:

First, are the films yours? Should you process them if you think they belonged to other members of the family that are now deceased? Do you really want to see your parents doing...

If they're "doing something" who is holding the camera? While I can't answer for you, I don't think most of us are concerned about seeing something untoward. Actually in a great majority of the cases, I suspect most of the images would be mundane images of folks we know. Still I think they would be well worth developing. Here is another thought, there are all sorts of Youtube videos on this subject. I would google Old exposed unprocessed film and see what I found.

Artcameraman Loc: Springfield NH

Yanking your chain.

Shutterbugger2 Loc: Chicago

cjr1952 wrote:

I recently found several rolls of exposed 120 colo... (show quote)

When we used old 8x10 Ektachrome, the processed transparencies had a heavy magenta color tint. We corrected it by shooting with a 20 to 30CC green gel filter.