Verichrome Pan Time Travel Experiment
(...or, can Idaho boy find happiness
with 45 year old film?)
I was in first grade when this box of film "expired"....
What happens to sour cream when it goes "bad"?
It's already sour to begin with, right?
Does Verichrome go "bad"?
I opened the box very carefully.
We need to preserve our historic artifacts, you know.
The long awaited coming out
party. It's been in there a long time! Fresh air!
Breath deep, the gathering gloom...(that should date me.)
Ahh...so beautiful, so...yellow.
I couldn't smell it. I have a head cold.
I have another new/old roll I'm saving for when I'm better.
Then I'm gonna sniff it. I love that new film smell.
I picked a Kodak Duaflex IV for it's maiden outing.
These two were made for each other. Literally.
Once again my old dog gets the modeling duties. For this
first shot I set my Vivitar flash on manual at a setting that
would work for this five foot distance at f16. I set the shutter
to "long" which is what the bulb setting on this camera is called.
I then opened the shutter and popped the flash manually, then
released the shutter. Hey, that's what "bulb" is for! Then I headed
out for some outdoor shots.
After the shootin' match...
In keeping with the "old" theme, I loaded the exposed
Verichrome into my oldest Paterson. That gray stuff is
JB Weld. The tank's had a hard life, but I keep patching
it up. I developed the film in D76 1+1 for 14 minutes.
So, did it work? Was the old VP viable?
Click here to find out!
deansphotographica.com
deansofidaho.com
deanw@bmi.net
3-05
© 2005 Dean Williams
Breath deep, the gathering gloom...(that should date me.)
Ahh...so beautiful, so...yellow.
I couldn't smell it. I have a head cold.
I have another new/old roll I'm saving for when I'm better.
Then I'm gonna sniff it. I love that new film smell.
I picked a Kodak Duaflex IV for it's maiden outing.
These two were made for each other. Literally.
Once again my old dog gets the modeling duties. For this
first shot I set my Vivitar flash on manual at a setting that
would work for this five foot distance at f16. I set the shutter
to "long" which is what the bulb setting on this camera is called.
I then opened the shutter and popped the flash manually, then
released the shutter. Hey, that's what "bulb" is for! Then I headed
out for some outdoor shots.
After the shootin' match...
In keeping with the "old" theme, I loaded the exposed
Verichrome into my oldest Paterson. That gray stuff is
JB Weld. The tank's had a hard life, but I keep patching
it up. I developed the film in D76 1+1 for 14 minutes.
So, did it work? Was the old VP viable?
Click here to find out!
deansphotographica.com
deansofidaho.com
deanw@bmi.net
3-05
© 2005 Dean Williams