Shallot onion developer works!!
smells bad, but it worked!!
after 3 hours there are nice images with a pleasant brown tint on the film
the images came out as POSITIVES!!!!?!?!?!?!!
looks like beautiful sepia slides!!!
how did THAT happen??????
330grams of chopped up shallot soaked in 600ml water/isopropyl alcohol for a week...then 4 tbsp sodium carbonate was added and Tri-X was developed for 3 hours....not really anything different than the other experiments, except it's a POSITIVE image
according to the all-knowing Google, Shallots contains allyl propyl disulphide (APDS).....is this compound at all related to sulfide sepia toners? is it acting like a fogging developer that somehow "ignores" the latent image?!?!??
WHAT caused the image to come out as positive??
maybe it is a positive because the fog darkened the base so much that the image ( underexposed ? ) reversed itself like an ambrotype/tintype ...
or when you severely underexpose film and tilt it when you look at it, it reverses itself.
it's not a reflection thing, if that's what you mean...I am viewing through the film -- and of course so did the scanner
one interesting things is that the part of the film that stuck out of the film cassette is the ONLY area that looks like it has a slight fog from a silver image -- the printing out PE explained to me a while ago -- in that region ONLY there is no sepia tone....in all other areas density seems to only be from the sepia tone ( I call it sepia tone for lack of a better term...whatever it is ) and not from a regular silver image
it's as if no silver got developed and density is only from this brown/sepia image...except on the teeny bit of film that only has "printing out" and no sepia
quite a puzzle..
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