Old exposed film

[Nick Rowland]

Hi,

Not large format but 35mm. I have found an exposed roll of Agfa Di-Direct 12asa reversal film that I must have forgotten to send off. It has to be 30 yrs or so old and used to have some sort of specialist processing by Agfa.

I am planning to try processing as negative film, my idea is to pre-soak in water and then semi-stand develop in HC110 (it's low fog) 1:160 for an hour. Anyone got a better suggestion, if not I'll just go for it as nothing to lose?

Cheers
Nick

 

[James T]

I don't know if this Flickr discussion is applicable:

AGFA Film: A Tribute

Now that Agfa is no more, and it's becoming harder and harder to get hold of the remaining film stocks, this group is intended to be a celebration of Agfa film - Ultra, Vista, Precisa, Optima, Scala, Agfapan, Jessops, any film made by Agfa! - Max 3 posts per day. - Put the film used in the...

www.flickr.com

 

[Nick Rowland]

Thanks James, I did see that but it was hard to decide who was knowledgeable and who wasn't. When it was current the film came in a process paid pack and had to be sent to Agfa directly for special processing (I have no idea why I didn't). I know that no processing lab would touch the stuff, which makes me think it needed special chemicals and processing, along the lines of Kodachrome. I used to use it a lot but never understood its background.

I thought the safest method would be to process as a mono neg as that can work with all sorts of film. Its age is against success anyway :-(

Nick

 

[Nick Rowland]

Oh well, at least I tried. Did a pre-soak and stand developed in HC110 with normal fix. The film came out looking totally untouched, goodness knows what the original process was but it wasn't conventional.

Nick