Developing Ansco All-Weather 620 film

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My grandfather passed away and in his Kodak Brownie Hawkeye, I found a roll of exposed film, Ansco All-weather 620 film. I'm a digital guy now and am not sure what kind of film this is or how to develop it. Any thoughts? Thanks for your he

-- Daniel Mears (dano5555@aol.com), January 19, 2002

Answers

Ansco is a brand name from quite some years ago. They made both B&W and color. Whether there will be a latent image left is questionable, because it's liable to be 30 or 40 years old. I *think* it's black and white. If it were very urgent to process it right this minute, I think I would go with D-76 or XTOL, with the recommended times for Plus-X or FP-4, since these are more similar to the older, thick-emulsion films than the newer stuff like T-Max.

Let us know how this turns out!

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), January 19, 2002.


Ansco All Weather Pan should be similar to Kodak Verichrome, withy which it competed in the '50s The Massive Dev Chart lists 7 min. in straight D-76 or 9 min. in D-76 1:1 for Verichrome). I would suggest at least doubling these times to make up for the latent image having dteriorated over the years. With any luck, you'll get printable, if not beautiful, negatives.

-- Robert Marvin (marvbej@earthlink.net), January 20, 2002.

DOubling or tripling the time may increase the film density immensely. Although some increase, upt to +50%, it is far more important to add some sodium, benzatriazole to the developer to lessen the overall fogging from age. This wil give you a better neg contrast wise which will simplify printing. Jim

-- Jim Noel (jim.noel@gcccd.ne), January 22, 2002.

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