First time developing 120 film...it went bright green in the D76!

I just want to make sure nothing horrible went wrong and that my chemicals are ok.

I developed my first roll of Arist EDU Ultra 100 and put the D76 in as usual.

When I dumped it out into the cup after developing it was literally bright green!

So I did the stop bath, and when I dumped the stop bath water out it was bright blue!

After the fixing, I dumped fixer that was "mildly green" back into the cup.

I panicked and looked online while I was fixing and some folks said that was normal and they dump their chems right back into the bottles for reuse, and some folks said they never do that.

Does this hurt the developer and fixer or not?

Also, some folks said that they "prewash" because they don't like this to happen, and others said that prewashing actually is worse for the film.

Any good ideas from the APUG group?

This is normal. Some 120 has a dye built in that does this. Don't film like you are using always makes developers green as they have green dye. I developed three rolls of foma 200 with the same batch of Ilford DD-X and they all came out fine no matter how green the developer got.

Malinku said:

This is normal. Some 120 has a dye built in that does this. Don't film like you are using always makes developers green as they have green dye. I developed three rolls of foma 200 with the same batch of Ilford DD-X and they all came out fine no matter how green the developer got.

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That's cool, thanks. Good to know. I freaked!

Yes, normal. Various films have different color dyes, and my staining developer with Foma or Arista film make a really sickly greenish brown color when poured out.

jeffreythree said:

Yes, normal. Various films have different color dyes, and my staining developer with Foma or Arista film make a really sickly greenish brown color when poured out.

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Wow.

But to make sure; pouring it back into the gallon bottle to reuse won't harm anything...true?

rpavich said:

Wow.

But to make sure; pouring it back into the gallon bottle to reuse won't harm anything...true?

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Yes, it is just dye. You should have seen the various colors my Diafine turned experimenting with different films until it settled on brown after a dozen or so rolls.

jeffreythree said:

Yes, it is just dye. You should have seen the various colors my Diafine turned experimenting with different films until it settled on brown after a dozen or so rolls.

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Thanks everyone.

Also to add; it's late but I HAD to see what the negatives looked like as a positive so I just put them on my iPad with a lighttable app and took a picture of them through the sleeve with my Ricoh GRIII and whoa! Amazing even with doing that. I'm stunned.
My enlarger comes tomorrow; I had to buy another one (I had a Beseler Printmaker 35) and figured I'd NEVER shoot medium format

The only problem I've had with stock bottles is chips from I assume 35mm cine film.
So filtering is sometimes necessary but the dyes are OK in commercial processors deep tanks with replenishment so your stock bottles dev, stop, fix, HCA are good.
Kodak will be pink!