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Old 15th April 2009, 07:53 PM
John51 John51 is offline
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My first attempts have not been great! Erring on the side of uncharactaristic tightness I thought I would try the worst of the paper I have got and the sealed but stressed chemicals..(all second hand"!)
No problems with the film development, although I thought the negatives a little "thin" enlarging to 5X7 produced a reasonable test sheet, but then after totally inconsistent results!
I blamed the chemicals, and a look on the Ilford site gave me the answer that batch numbers could be decoded on request. I had another look at the bottles, and, like most plastics, car trims and the like, the date of manufacture is there, in this case an arrow clock with the arrow bisecting the year and the head pointing to the month of manufacture of the bottle, at least, in one case, 2005!
I will try again with fresh stuff next time!

John.
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