Topic: Cor ! 40 rolls ! :-)

[Miles]

Just picked up (locally) stuff load of many films from a few decades, nice for the lo-fi cobblers I like 

There's stuff in there I've never heard of.

[Flippy]

I see some technical pan.  Really neat film!  Contrasty as hell, but perhaps I developed mine wrong.  I was given a few rolls by a portrait photographer some years ago when he was switching to digital.  Very fine grain, and it gave rather dark skies as if I was using an orange filter.  It's apparently quite sought after by portrait photogs.

[Sandeha Lynch]

Here's a recommendation for Tech Pan that works.  Rodinal 1+300 dilution, 15 min at 20C. Constant agitation for first 30 seconds and then two gentle inversions every 30 seconds.

That controls the contrast quite nicely ...

[Miles]

Thanks, I'll take a better pic later, I'll a lot of bespoke dev times given the age of some of it. Will put some of the 25asa in my new 1930's 24x24 Tenax.

As ever, I'm over excited.

[Late Developer]

Funnily enough, I was thinking about Kodak 2415 Technical pan the other day.

As a very young man in the late 70's/early 80's I always wanted to take a photo like Ansel Adams (yeah, right.......). However, armed with nothing more than an Olympus OM2n and a 24mm f2.8 that was going to be difficult as whatever film I used was going to have some grain when blown up to 24"x16". Then a friend of mine gave me a box of TP 2415 and recommended I develop it in Tetenal Neofin Doku - a one shot developer that supposedly controlled contrast.

Well, it certainly did the job. I got some lovely detail in the negs when viewed through the loupe but they were so low contrast that even after printing them on the contrastiest paper I could find, I couldn't get a good spread of white to black.

I wish I'd had Sandeha's recipe in those days. I tried about 4 or 5 films but never really got close an returned to 50 ISO PanF (if memory serves) as my landscape film of choice.

Have fun and I hope you get some great results.

[Miles]

Cheers, it's actually over 50 rolls 

[Windy]

A good haul

Now get down to some serious filmwastin'

[Francois]

Nice haul!

One thing's for sure, you've gotta save some of those cartons!
Very sweet stuff!

[LT]

Local? Where? how come you get all the East Kent Luck?

Seriously ... nice haul.

[Sandeha Lynch]

Whoever built up that obscene stock of film certainly had their proportions right in mixing colour and bw.   

[astrobeck]

sweet!  

I love hearing about fellow filmwasters making a major score!

And to echo what Francois said, you gotta save some of those boxes.
Those are very cool.

[Miles]

I love a "graphic" too 

Leon - Old chap in Chestfield, he has a Mam Press that I told him I'd be interested in too.  He's got rid of most of his stuff though.