Time was short, Japan needed Fruzsi on a matter of national importance by the end of the month. The downside is it is nearly always grainy as all get out. If you use a regular black and white developer, you can still retrieve this silver image. Your other option is developing the film to black and white.Įvery colour film has a standard silver image created as part of it’s process, but the silver is removed in the bleaching step, leaving only the dye image created by the colour developer and colour couplers present in the film.
You can still mix up C-22 chemistry from scratch, but it would take a while to source chemicals and get things just right – it’s massively fun to read about. So, given that the film had already been exposed and had some treasured pictures on board, we determined that we’d need to try to process it. The C-22 process was superseded by the C-41 process we still use for colour negatives today, but the two sets of chemistry are not interchangeable. Photographic companies like to give chemical processes easily identified names, C-22, E-4, CN-16, and so on – we like to name things after Hitchhiker’s Guide characters, but to each their own. If it were cheese you would not chance it, but sometimes you get lucky with film (EDIT: Andrew would chance 40 year old cheese). Expired is an understatement, given that the film went out of production in 1974, making it at least 40 years old. Like an awful 1960’s Sci Fi movie, the name piques your curiosity. So she brought the film by and after a quick glance, it turned out to be C-22 process film, a roll of the (sexily branded) Kodacolor-X. “Nonsense”, I said, thinking they were too scared to process 120 film, and sent her to a better lab. “Nonsense”, a better lab said, and returned the film to her again. The other day our friend Fruzsi came to us with a problem – she’s bought a roll of expired colour film for her Diana on eBay and taken it Adventuring in The Big Wide World, only to be told on her return that her local 1-hour photo lab couldn’t process it.
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