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- May 23, 2014
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Hi everyone,
I had previously posted my experience with an ancient bottle of rodinal but now Ive had a chance to develop some 35 mm film (tri x) using some old but not quite as old, HC-110 developer that I bought as part of a darkroom kit sale. The bottle was opened by the previous owner (I don't know when) and about a 1/5 of the concentrate was used , so there was a definite air cap left in the original bottle. The expiration date on the bottle states 2005/2006. I used dilution 'B' @ 20 degrees for six minutes and printed the negative on 5x7 sheet of kentmere FB VC fineprint , followed by a 5 min selenium 1:9 toning. To my (inexperienced) eye, the HC-110 still delivers!
I toned a separate kentmere print with a 1:50 dilution @10 minutes of the old but unopened viradon that I have and going by the stench of the concentrate and the final image, Id say that its still in good shape. This print did get a double dipping in selenium as I had previously toned it in 1:9 selenium solution before I tried it in the viradon, which already contains selenium. As an aside ,my experience with this paper is that it really needs selenium as it seems to have a slightly greeninsh tinge untoned (developed in LPD 1:3).
Adam
I had previously posted my experience with an ancient bottle of rodinal but now Ive had a chance to develop some 35 mm film (tri x) using some old but not quite as old, HC-110 developer that I bought as part of a darkroom kit sale. The bottle was opened by the previous owner (I don't know when) and about a 1/5 of the concentrate was used , so there was a definite air cap left in the original bottle. The expiration date on the bottle states 2005/2006. I used dilution 'B' @ 20 degrees for six minutes and printed the negative on 5x7 sheet of kentmere FB VC fineprint , followed by a 5 min selenium 1:9 toning. To my (inexperienced) eye, the HC-110 still delivers!
I toned a separate kentmere print with a 1:50 dilution @10 minutes of the old but unopened viradon that I have and going by the stench of the concentrate and the final image, Id say that its still in good shape. This print did get a double dipping in selenium as I had previously toned it in 1:9 selenium solution before I tried it in the viradon, which already contains selenium. As an aside ,my experience with this paper is that it really needs selenium as it seems to have a slightly greeninsh tinge untoned (developed in LPD 1:3).
Adam