127 colour film - processing as BW film

[Julian Tanase]

Hello everyone!

A friend of mine asked me to develop this film for him; it's a colour film negative, 127 format, CNS2, no idea about how old is it, when it was shot, how was it kept, nothing at all basically. Colour processing is out of question, for a number of reasons. The film is very old stock, but the photographs on it were taken recently with a KVP camera. I would assume the film is from 60s - 70s, just to be at about the half of the period it was on the market, I guess.

Now, I had my fair share of processing colour film (various formats) as BW, but I knew what was their story. No idea with this one, so I am asking the more knowledgeable community here to try and assist me with this, if possible. Perhaps someone recognize the roll as some type or other?



As developers go, I have quite a good selection. I'm leaning towards Rodinal (high dilution) or HC110/B, but of course other may differ.

Thank you in advance !​

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

No idea, but interested. Good luck!

 

[Chris Bennett]

Interesting. I would go with the highly diluted Rodinal, if I were dealing with this.

 

[Julian Tanase]

Such as 1+100 at 60 mins, stand? What temp should this be: 18, 20 or higher than that? Thx!

 

[Chris Bennett]

Yes 1+100 for 60 minutes at 20 degrees

 

[Julian Tanase]

Thank you, Chris, appreciated. I have developed the film, and if you do not consider the brownish mask still on the negative, it came out pretty interesting. Out of 12 exposures, 10 are plainly visible upon holding the strip in front of a light. I need to run this through an enlarger, but I can tell there is a chance of some interesting photographs.

Fingers crossed

 

[Julian Tanase]

So the film was developed, and it came out rather viewable, at least against a good light source. The mask plays tricks as it usually does with colour film processed as bw. I managed to get one frame, by means of digital camera with a Nikkor 55/2.8 macro.



But...I need to take this to the enlarger, because it is obvious the digital copying it does not provide the best results.

 

[Chris Bennett]

Great that you got something usable Julian

 

[Julian Tanase]

Thank you, Chris !

 

[Pete Askew]

Absolutely, definitely a result. I have an old film to process at some point too. The Box Brownie it is taped inside will need to be opened in the darkroom so I can confirm the film. It looked like it was probably Verichrome though.

 

[Julian Tanase]

Looking forward to those images, Pete!