This thread is for methods of using expired and outdated film, glass plates and other aged medium.
I was given, by a very generous forum member a box of old glass plates. A heavy box with many kinds, most sealed. You know who you are. Thank you!
The first box I want to try is 'The Standard''. Box is sealed, size 5x7, Sensitometer 60!
No date on this one, but other boxes, all looking the same age, have expiry date of 1926. So I am going to assume all are between WW I and II. Old!
I'm sure some collector exists, but I will open the boxes carefully and try a couple, a box at a time. No hurry, no expectations.
I find it more interesting to see what can be done, rather than put these in a museum which will toss them anyway in a decade or 2. I will save the box.
How do we start?
Are these ortho? Can I open in Red LED? I suppose why chance it and just full dark it.
Exposure advice, perhaps bracketing with the dark slide? Ideas?
Lighting, maybe daylight is best? Not strobes?
Please go easy on crazy developers, I am not a chemist. I use Rodinal for nearly everything.
Revised pics in post 2 to conform to LF
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