Hi Kostas! If You still find some BW film on sale, just shoot a test roll right before You plan to do some major developing, and see if the spirit of the thing is still alive. Concentrated stuff may last quite long. In prehistory I used to brew my own and those ones usually were used quite soon (except some occasions when I took some concentrates along with me in tiny bottles to geobotanical field works to develop something at night in the tent with floodplain inundation water ;) Peeter -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of kpp@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 12:54 PM To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: Rodinal storage life? hi all! with Agfa dropping the commercial & proffesional film & materials line entirely, I made a half-day long excursion to photo stores to assemble a stock that will keep me going for 3-5 years more. Among others i have purchased 2 bottles of Rodinal, that i believe it is of late manufacture. So i have two questions for the film users (now old-timers) of the group. Where is the date of manufacture located on the 0.5 lit bottle & box? There is something on the lip of the lid but I can not read anykind of date in this coding How long can Rodinal be expected to last when kept in the fridge? (talking about sealed bottles) I have been told that under proper conditions a lifetime of 2 years is expected, but from another source I have been told that Rodinal have been observed to be good even after 15 years!!! Coming from the considerable group commulative experience, what should i bet on? Many thanks, "the times a' changing" Kostas ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ http://www.mailbox.gr ĮšļźōŽóōå äłńåÜķ ōļ ģļķįäéźü óįņ e-mail. http://www.superweb.gr ĻéźļķļģéźÜ źįé įīéüšéóōį šįźŻōį web hosting ģå įóöįėŻņ Åėėēķéźü controlpanel http://domains.europlanet.gr Ōļ üķļģÜ óįņ óōļ internet ģüķļ ģå 10 Åõńž.
