Cinestill DF96 monobath

[Raghu Kuvempunagar]

@Huss: good points on usage. TFS. You should consider creating a new thread on DF96 best practices so that your findings are much more easily accessible to those who want to begin using the monobath.

 

[Huss]

Roll #21 (!)

Rollei QZ35W, Ilford HP5, Cinestill DF96





I then developed another test strip to see if I could develop roll #22 - but alas it was done after 21 rolls..
RIP my bottle of DF96 that I opened in December..

 

[Moose22]

@Huss You mentioned somewhere about trouble with inversion agitating and multiple rolls in DF96.

I've been meaning to ask. Can you expand on that and how you agitate the monobath? I was just using my tank that can do two 120 at once and it came to mind.

 

[Huss]

@Huss You mentioned somewhere about trouble with inversion agitating and multiple rolls in DF96.

I've been meaning to ask. Can you expand on that and how you agitate the monobath? I was just using my tank that can do two 120 at once and it came to mind.

I've only been having problems when I use the stick to agitate the dev tank. That just swirls the reels around with no inversion. The way to do it is to invert the tank - I do it by rotating my wrist as I hold it - for 30 secs to start, then 10 secs every minute, and 2 rotations at every 30 sec mark after the first minute. At 75 degrees.

 

[Huss]

Rollei QZ35W, Ilford HP5

 

[Huss]

Nikon F3P, Lomo Neptune 15mm, Lomo Babylon 13, Cinestill DF96 Monobath

 

[Huss]

As above

 

[Huss]

Fuji Work Record Pano, Arista 100, Cinestill DF96 Monobath

 

[Huss]

Rollei QZ35W, Ilford HP5, DF96 Mono

 

[Huss]

Lomo LC-A 120, Arista 100, Cinestill DF96 Monobath

 

[Huss]

Nikon F3P, Lomo Neptune 15mm 3.8, Lomo Babylon 13, Cinestill DF96 Monobath

 

[Huss]

M3 DS, ZM 50 1.5, Sunpak Auto 121C, Arista 100, DF96 Monobath

 

[Huss]

Rollei QZ35W, Ilford HP5, Cinestill DF96

 

[Donald Qualls]

Good grief, man, how do you have time to shoot, process, and scan all this film?

 

[Raghu Kuvempunagar]

Rollei QZ35W, Ilford HP5, Cinestill DF96

That's a very nice one! Looks like you're teaching Zone System to the monobath.

 

[Huss]

Good grief, man, how do you have time to shoot, process, and scan all this film?

I take a camera everywhere I go. And the beauty of monobath is it is very quick to develop, with basically no set up time. No bottles, jars, stuff to mix etc.
And the I scan myself using a digicam. Which is super quick too.

Just shot my first roll of Across II - there was no info on how to develop it in Monobath, but reading Fuji's fine print they mention something about new tech, based on colour dyes etc. So I figured it's their equivalent of tabular grain films like TMAX and Delta. Which need double the time to process than regular B&W film in order to clear the base layer.
It's drying now, so I'll soon see how it works in DF96...

 

[Huss]

Aaannnd, Acros II is perfect in DF96 Monobath. Silky tones, zero grain. This pic was heavily backlit, and still came out like this

Rollei QZ35W, Acros II, Cinestill DF96 Monobath

 

[Donald Qualls]

I generally carry at least one camera everywhere, but I got the same places every day and don't/can't stop to look for interesting angles. And even with monobath I'd have trouble finding time to process the volume you do. An hour each way commute eats your free time as badly as having kids...

 

[Huss]

I generally carry at least one camera everywhere, but I got the same places every day and don't/can't stop to look for interesting angles. And even with monobath I'd have trouble finding time to process the volume you do. An hour each way commute eats your free time as badly as having kids...

I can see that. I work remotely, and have no kids. But I do have dogs that guilt me all the time to take them places. And they are terrible shot blockers, as they have developed the knack to yank on their leashes the moment I press the shutter button.

 

[Donald Qualls]

You need to learn the "step on the leash" technique. My partner taught it to me. Clip the leash to your belt, step on the slack, and the dog is pretty well constrained -- and it takes a big, insistent dog to jerk hard enough to move your foot with your weight on it (and a few training sessions will break them of that).

 

[Huss]

Rollei QZ35W, Fuji Acros II, DF96 Mono

 

[Huss]

You need to learn the "step on the leash" technique. My partner taught it to me. Clip the leash to your belt, step on the slack, and the dog is pretty well constrained -- and it takes a big, insistent dog to jerk hard enough to move your foot with your weight on it (and a few training sessions will break them of that).

I'll try that. Thing is they do the complete Tazmanian Devil routine where they just fly off the handle if they see another dog, skateboarder, rollerblader, squirrel, someone using a digital camera...

 

[Donald Qualls]

As my boss says, at all times, either you're training them, or they're training you. Sounds like you need to reverse the direction of training...

 

[madNbad]

Aaannnd, Acros II is perfect in DF96 Monobath. Silky tones, zero grain. This pic was heavily backlit, and still came out like this

Rollei QZ35W, Acros II, Cinestill DF96 Monobath

Even without filtration, it really holds the cloud details.

 

[Huss]

As my boss says, at all times, either you're training them, or they're training you. Sounds like you need to reverse the direction of training...

By themselves - no problem. But together.. eesh. The small one - Daisy (Yorkie/Chihuahua mix aka yowowa) an angel by herself - gets Pepe all riled up as she uses him as her 'heavy'. And Pepe is fine by himself.