It's so dark outside so I try to shoot some indoors to dial in my development process. I ran a roll of the 12 year old bulk film while cooking (it went on the spiral without hickups just as the last bulk film did), I guess B&W isn't the most exciting when it comes to food photography.
I developed it for 5 minutes@20 degrees C (assuming it's Fomapan 100) in Kodak Tmax 1+4. This was the 4th roll I ran through that same solution, following the data sheet that claims 4 (compensated for my tank) rolls before increasing the development time by 1 minute for the next 4 and then by another minute for the last 4. So according to Kodak I'm supposed to get 48 rolls from one gallon. It is however not clear whether they mean a gallon of concentrate or a gallon of working solution but I assume it's the latter? They were then run through 60 seconds of stop bath and 2 minutes of fixing.
These negatives were put on a light-table and "scanned" using a digital camera and macro lens, then bulk processed in Capture One to convert them to positives and this is the best I could do.
I realize it's hard to say anything since the film is old and the processing in Capture One can change things a great deal but they look kind of flat and lifeless to me. Would you say that they are underdeveloped just from looking at the positives?
I selected a number of the negatives to hopefully make it easier.
I developed it for 5 minutes@20 degrees C (assuming it's Fomapan 100) in Kodak Tmax 1+4. This was the 4th roll I ran through that same solution, following the data sheet that claims 4 (compensated for my tank) rolls before increasing the development time by 1 minute for the next 4 and then by another minute for the last 4. So according to Kodak I'm supposed to get 48 rolls from one gallon. It is however not clear whether they mean a gallon of concentrate or a gallon of working solution but I assume it's the latter? They were then run through 60 seconds of stop bath and 2 minutes of fixing.
These negatives were put on a light-table and "scanned" using a digital camera and macro lens, then bulk processed in Capture One to convert them to positives and this is the best I could do.
I realize it's hard to say anything since the film is old and the processing in Capture One can change things a great deal but they look kind of flat and lifeless to me. Would you say that they are underdeveloped just from looking at the positives?
I selected a number of the negatives to hopefully make it easier.