Testing old Rodinal (early 80s)

[ped]

I have a bottle of Rodinal which I think is from the early 80s, so it's probably about the same age as me. I ran a test film through my camera just now, and used my usual 1:25 dilution in my Rondinax tank, 6 mins and 5 min fix, then wash. As you can see, it's come out perfectly fine. There's a lot of sediment in the bottle but I let it sink to the bottom and drew out 8mm with a syringe.

 

[Boots]

Excellent!

Well, you see, that was before they put Best Before dates on everything, so they just lasted forever. My mother swore that that the things in her kitchen (in 2000) that were priced in old money, were still basically fine.