Developing Shantou Era 100 film in Dektol. Bad idea?

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I have a roll of Shantou Era 100 that I finally finished off (thanks Richard!), and all I have currently is Mic-X and Dektol. The Mic-X is unopened and I will probably be selling it along w/ the replenisher, so that leaves the Dektol. The issue is that the Dektol is nearly 3 months old (stock solution that was used for prints). Given that grain is probably gonna be there no matter what, the age of the developer has me concerned too.

Am I just fooling myself thinking that this might work? It need not work perfectly, it was just a roll that took months to finish off so who knows what's on it, but if somehow a frame or two looks good enough to print 8x10, is this just wishful thinking? I've never developed any film in Dektol before, so there is that too.

 

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momus
i process my film in a combination of dektol and coffee one after the other
the grain isn't an issue anymore than some other developers.
if your dektol is still clear see how it does turning a piece of photo paper black in room light
( to make sure it is still good )
if you are unsure your developer is still good, don't use it, no point in ruining film with bad/exhausted developer.
otherwise process your film 1:7 for about 7 mins ... agitate normally, stop and fix normally.
i did this with ansco 130 for almost 15 years maybe more than that, a similar paper developer.
i had some dektol turn brown and go bad on my a month or so ago, i mixed up some fresh d72 from scratch, works great.

good luck !
john

 

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Ah, the brown thing. Completely forgot about that. Duh. Normally I mix up fresh paper developer and pitch it before it ever gets that way. The one time I let it get even to a sort of light yellow my prints suffered. Thanks. I'll ck that first, then see where that leads me.

Coffee had occurred to me as well, but I would have had to buy the coffee, which is sure more money than I remembered instant coffee used to be, the sodium carbonate, and maybe the powered Vitamin C, all for a one time project. Pfffft. May as well buy some Rodinal and be able to use it for months (I don't get much more than that from the Ro9 variety).

 

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hi momus

yeah the brown thing is no fun ... if you said ansco130
i'd say, its sort of brownish, use it anyways ! but dektol , nope
not sure where you are, but around here at least instant coffee can be pretty cheap,
its the vit c that gets up there in $ ... at trader joe's it ( vit c ) tends to be inexpensiver than other places..

good luck with your film !
john