I have followed their "best practice" document to the letter using their preferred option - ISO80, develop in a rotary processor (Jobo CPE2) for 8 minutes at 21C in D-96. The negatives are way too thin. The cameras and developing equipment work fine with other films, the developer was fine as it developed a roll of Double-X in the same tank at the same time perfectly. I have since used 3 different batches of P30 and 4 different bottles of D-96 and all give the same thin negatives - the edge markings are thin too, so it is not a problem with exposure. I have asked around, what the problem may be, but the advice I get is to use a different developer. I have done that and it works, but I want to follow the manufacturer's best practice. Am I missing something? Is it like Italian cooking - "Si, you have to add pasta sauce - everyone knows that, so we don't put it in the recipe!" Do I have to add pasta sauce to my D-96? Just joking - but what can I be missing? If their advice were wrong then surely it would have been corrected in the best practice document after 3 years if not sooner - David Bias told me that the D-96 and D-76 time and temperature in the best practice document are what Ferrania tested and it worked for them. Are P30 negatives supposed to be very thin? Many thanks for any advice on this.
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