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Stan160
17th August 2010, 05:06 PM
A friend gave me a box of assorted 5+ years expired film. Good number of Delta 100, Delta 3200, Tri-X, Tmax, and some odd rolls of other stuff including a single roll of Agfa Scala with processing envelope and an expiry date in 2006.

I assume it's safe to say that the address on the processing envelope is no longer valid, and any arrangement for processing expired with Agfa's demise.

Can Scala be processed as standard B&W film for negatives? Is it somehow optimised for reversal use? I've got the Ilford instructions on reversal processing so I may give it a try if the process is valid.

Ian

les dix
17th August 2010, 05:58 PM
Developing Scala as a conventional negative film in a conventional developer? Yes you can. I have done this in the past and got some nice negatives. Unfortunately I did not make a note of the developer or conditions as the film was discontinued by then. I seem to recall that I treated the film as FP4+ at ISO 125 but cannot be certain.

The lab that did Scala processing has (like so many) gone out of business.

Les

marty
17th August 2010, 06:34 PM
I remember having seen something on the net but I can no longer find the link(s). There is something on The Massive Dev Chart (http://www.digitaltruth.com/devchart.php?Film=Scala&Developer=&mdc=Search). I did not try those myself but should be a good starting point.
Foma supplies a kit (http://www.silverprint.co.uk/ProductByGroup.asp?PrGrp=506) to make slides from their Fomapan 100R, with some tweaking might work with other films too. Kodak has something similar.

Cheers, M.

Peter Fitz
3rd September 2010, 12:38 PM
I remember having seen something on the net but I can no longer find the link(s). There is something on The Massive Dev Chart (http://www.digitaltruth.com/devchart.php?Film=Scala&Developer=&mdc=Search). I did not try those myself but should be a good starting point.
Foma supplies a kit (http://www.silverprint.co.uk/ProductByGroup.asp?PrGrp=506) to make slides from their Fomapan 100R, with some tweaking might work with other films too. Kodak has something similar.

Cheers, M.

Macodirect state that this film will work in the Foma chemistry. Try that or consider sending it to dr5 in the US.