Very Expired Tmax 400 results
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- Published on Tuesday, 01 November 2011 10:22
- Written by Neal
As many of you know, I've been shooting film gifted to me from a retired pro's darkroom. Much of this film has been in a fridge for over 20 years, I've been getting through the testing and have uncovered some amazing results.
As we know, refrigerated film doesn't show the effects of expiry as much, I've read that cosmic background radiation still effects chilled films and that an extra stop should be applied for every decade of a films expiry.
So far the worst I've noticed was a little extra grain on the Ilford HP5 (original) that I shot. Well I just processed some Tmax 400 shot in the Rolleiflex and wow. I'm blown away. I processed this tmax in d76 1:1 as I have been for all these films as a sort of "control" group.
first results in!
You can see just how good this film is. tonality is in line, it shows minimal grain and crisp sharp edges. below is the 100% crop for extra tmax detaily goodness.
Long live film! ...... quite literally