I don't normally shoot Delta 100, and in fact the last I shot was some pretty badly expired stuff just to test a camera.
I stopped in the local camera store to get TMAX 100 to do some lens/camera testing and they were out of it in 120, so I ended up with some in-date(ex. 2026) Delta 100.
One of these rolls was one of several I processed today. It was developed in D76 1:1, and otherwise I didn't do anything unusual with the processing.
This roll came out with a pink cast and has a very "milky" look, though. Initially I suspected it may have been underfixed. I'm using a batch of Ilford Rapid diluted 1:4 that I've run a few rolls of film through, but it still clears a leader in under 2 minutes and only gives the faintest milky precipitate when tested with fixer test solution. I noticed this issue while I had a different roll in fixer from the same bottle(Shanghai GP3), and that one fixed fine.
This roll of Delta 100 did test negative for both retained silver and retained hypo, so fixing and washing by that test were adequate. None the less, while I was waiting 3 minutes for the retained silver test, I reloaded the film and re-fixed it in freshly prepared fixer(Kodak rapid), which made no difference.
Is this nothing to worry about and/or normal for this film, or is something strange going on?
(please ignore my wife's hair in the bathroom sink-I assure you it was not on the film).
I stopped in the local camera store to get TMAX 100 to do some lens/camera testing and they were out of it in 120, so I ended up with some in-date(ex. 2026) Delta 100.
One of these rolls was one of several I processed today. It was developed in D76 1:1, and otherwise I didn't do anything unusual with the processing.
This roll came out with a pink cast and has a very "milky" look, though. Initially I suspected it may have been underfixed. I'm using a batch of Ilford Rapid diluted 1:4 that I've run a few rolls of film through, but it still clears a leader in under 2 minutes and only gives the faintest milky precipitate when tested with fixer test solution. I noticed this issue while I had a different roll in fixer from the same bottle(Shanghai GP3), and that one fixed fine.
This roll of Delta 100 did test negative for both retained silver and retained hypo, so fixing and washing by that test were adequate. None the less, while I was waiting 3 minutes for the retained silver test, I reloaded the film and re-fixed it in freshly prepared fixer(Kodak rapid), which made no difference.
Is this nothing to worry about and/or normal for this film, or is something strange going on?
(please ignore my wife's hair in the bathroom sink-I assure you it was not on the film).