Developing Old E-6

I have a roll of Ektachrome that I forgot to get processed. I found

it in a box in the basement and it is probably 20-22 years old. I

want to process it myself in my Jobo. Any suggestions? Should I

bother? I asked this question before but forgot to mention I want to

do it myself.

 

Don Wallace

1. Make sure the roll is E-6 and not E-4.

 

2. My 20+ years of experience in having ancient slide film developed for customers does not make me optimistic for you. But if you are running a batch of E-6 anyway, have at it- not much to lose.

Depends on the speed of the film and how cool a room its been in. I recently just exposed 2 rolls of Ektachrome 200 and 400 that were freezer kept. I did this for fun to see what I'd get. The 200 film was barely fogged, while the 400 was mostly fogged. I'd put it through for the heck of it. $5 isn't going to break the bank and you never know what may be on that roll. Those 2 rolls I had were dated expired 1980 by the way.

You might want to do a snip test and see how the first few frames come out.