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We moved house ten years ago - things go AWOL at those times - lots of stuff stays in boxes - my darkroom equipment and paraphernalia remained that way for some time.

 

When I unpacked to rebuild a temporary darkroom I thought I had lost a batch of about 40 rolls of exposed TriX - Lo and behold I found them recently.

 

Now I am wondering how I should develop them.

 

Trial and error is one method.

 

Any suggestions??

 

Osscat

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I'm interested in this too - I always have exposed film lying around that didn't get deved immediately for some reason. These days I don't soup my own films, but the lab, who presumably use standard times, do a good job. Seems modern film is pretty robust stuff.

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D76 1+1 , 10 minutes at 68F

 

My normal process method is D76 1+1 - 11.5 mins gentle inversion.

 

my concern is overcoming the probable increase in base fog due to an aged latent image - the edge sharpness might be badly affected too.

 

I wondered if there was anyone with such experience - I believe Rodinol has been discontinued so another acutance developer might be appropriate.

 

Hmm - must bite the bullet and get some fresh D76.

 

Thanks

 

Osscat

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Mark Norton had a great thread on his blog about a year ago on old film. He developed some film from the last war and got printable images. I developed a roll of Agfa film from the 1970s that had lain exposed for over 30 years. I souped it in XTOL and added a bit more development time to allow for age - worked ok.

 

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