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Sears Film? - 04-16-2010, 10:33 PM


Darkroom Experts - I need your help!

The darkroom equipment that I received contained some negatives from Woodstock which were really cool. It also contained a few rolls of undeveloped Sears brand 35MM film that I can't wait to see.

The question is, does anyone know what the dev time is for Sears 35MM B/W Panchromatic Film ASA 125?

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04-17-2010, 12:12 AM


Scott,

Don't get your hopes up. Film is organic and will break down over time if not stored correctly.

You are not likely to get much other than heavily fogged film.

That being said, I would certainly give it a try.

My best guess and it is a guess, would be treat it as Kodak Plus X.

That was the most common B&W film available.

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04-17-2010, 12:21 PM


IIRC that Sears B&W was either Kodak Plus-X or VeriChrome rebadged, or GAF film, so I agree with Kevin, treat it as Plus-X and develop one roll at a time. ALthough I would suggest either D76 or Microdol-X if you can still get those, as the developers, I would NOT suggest HC-110 or another high power developer due to the film's age.

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/profe...Pubs/f7/f7.pdf

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/profe...Pubs/f8/f8.pdf

http://photo.net/black-and-white-pho...g-forum/00VPJ2

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/foru...p/t-12852.html

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ALthough I would suggest either D76 or Microdol-X if you can still get those, as the developers, I would NOT suggest HC-110 or another high power developer due to the film's age.
You can still get D-76. That's what I use.
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04-17-2010, 09:47 PM


I just found this lab tonight. perhaps they can be of help? Old film seems to be their specialty.

Old Film Processing at Rocky Mountain Film Laboratory

Their webiste is a bit difficult to navigate, so I would just call and see what their opinion is.

On a side note, When I move to Aurora, I SOO want to go there and see if they might let me hang out underfoot to learn a few things about manual processing!
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04-17-2010, 09:58 PM


When I needed old color film (C-22) developed, I noticed Rocky Mountain Labs had a lot of bad reviews online.

I used Film Rescue International and I had a good experience.

Black and white, you should be able to do yourself. The C-22 color process I couldn't do myself and no normal lab could do it either. Developing the sears film will be the same process as Plus-X today.
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[QUOTE=chris00nj;1115909]When I needed old color film (C-22) developed, I noticed Rocky Mountain Labs had a lot of bad reviews online.

good to know. I'm a noob and know nothing. :)
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04-19-2010, 02:27 PM


Concur with the observations on Rocky Mountain. WAY too high for what they do.

Film Rescue has the best policy I have seen:

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This sounds interesting! We want to see some of the images, if there are any saved...
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Me too. I want to see them just to see how bad (good) the damage is.

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07-23-2010, 10:33 AM


Unfortunately the canisters were empty...

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