The film that never was

[mark dyson]

A few months ago I was given a film, a Kodak infrared. With this film you load it in the camera in the dark, even taking it out of the canister can cause fogging. I taped the film viewing window with black tape to be safe. I exposed the film at 400 asa and with a dark red filter in place. Having exposed the film I removed it from the camera in the dark and placed it in the developing tank ready for the chemicals. Every thing was ready and I went to throw away the empty film casing and guess what I found written on it, Fujichrome Velvia 100f. Oh dear.

[John]

Oh dear indeed. I hope it developed some nice black and white images!

[Walter Brooks]

- hope you put it back in the canister to get it processed - good to see some of your colour work!

[pammie]

mmmm.... Who the devil put it in the wrong cannister anyway? The plot thickens....

[Walter Brooks]

Might it have been one of those 'freebies' that fly into the assembled members from the front at the start of an evening?

[John]

It just might have been...

[mark dyson]

My lips are sealed on the mystery person. I could be open to a small bribe, Pentax not. oh sorry for the typo.

[Walter Brooks]

I am sure you will get over it eventually? Unless we keep reminding you - maybe after you have just ribbed me about my battery failure

[mark dyson]

Their was nothing I could have done, not knowing what was in the canister I was literally in the dark. But that will not stop you and the film crew from taking the you know what out of me. Remember he who has never made a mistake has never made anything. Their is no history button in film photography.

[John]

I'm not clear whether or not you have processed the film, but any film can be processed to black and white negatives. IUf you try whatever you would use for say a 100 ISO BW film then you should be close enough to get some useable negatives. If you want to do a clip test even better - just clip off a short length of film and test-process that. Then you can adjust the processing for the main part of the film.

The results could be interesting.