Well, I went out shooting today. I went to Carrizo Plain which is a desolate piece of hell in the summer time. There are maybe 20 trees in the entire valley, the rest is dead grass. I drove wondering what the heck I went out there for in the dead of summer because what was I going to shoot? But I went up some dirt road I never went up before and that yielded some old combines and threshers and other farm implements that appear to be from around the turn of the century, left to rot slowly. These combines were made mostly from wood.
Anyway, I just finished developing a roll of 120 Pan F with a 1/50 Rodinal dilution, with agitation every 30 seconds, and on every minute a more vigorous shake for a total of 11 minutes as it says to on Digitaltruth's Massive Dev Chart. I presoaked, as I usually do, I like to see the dirty purplish blackish blue color come out, it makes me feel like my film is being cleaned of all impurities haaaa! Maybe next time I will get bold with this stand development. I just couldn't this time because I actually wanted to print these negs and so I relied on known objective and published data. So.. the negs are drying now.. they sure look good but I won't know anything for certain until I get them enlarged which maybe I might do tomorrow since the weather has gone decidedly cooler and it probably won't be a big waste of time to set up (I'm reliant on a takedown darkroom in my small apartment bathroom). Will return with my findings and perhaps some photos scanned if I can get my all-in-one scanner/printer to work.
