Hi there! Stumbled across this forum while looking for what to do if I had a B&W developer and and an Ilford XP2 in my hand. Not only that, but I didn’t realisere xp2 was supposed to be «color developed», and I had already put them in the same tank… Bit I developed for ≈7 minutts using Ilford Ilfosol 3 (from a «starter pack» since I haveb’t done much film development in the last years, not done it much since eitther. And figured that buing whole bottles of chemistty that wouid go bad before I had time to use them was dumt (i had a developer die on me once, wound up with a well firedel and rinsed completetly blank film. Lassoen learned).
Im a total amatuer, just having shot loads of b&W film back in the old days when Tri-X was readily avaiable in bulk, and I loaded my on cassettes/cartridges. I used to have a darkroom, Now I have to use the bathroom and drag the enlarger in & out, and use abench for my trays. Still, it’s doable. But: I bought some multi-contrast paper and was gravely disappointed. Even with the filter for «high contrast», the prints looked like what your got from the entra soft papers (grade 0 or 1) back in the days. Nowhere near what you got with «normal grade» paper, or «3», in the old days. I once bought some «East Bloc» baryt paper. Nice enough, but impossible to stop yellowing. I used «fix killer» (old used-up paper developer) and rinsed them very well. Still they yellowd before you could say «yellow»…
I’ve tanken up «analougue photography» again simple because I have so much cameras and lenses (and getting a lens for a digital SLR costs an arm and a led and your firstborn…). Now my phone is my snapshot camera per excellence, but shooting on film, be it color, slides or b&W is something else. It’s old-school, and it’s plain cool, and it’s a harking back to the old days when you couldn’t see your pictures right away, you had to finish the roll and develop it and make prints… I’ve begun doing color in b&W, inspirer by the photographer of the Czar, who documented Russia in the late 1800s, using regular b&W plates and color filter (r/g/b), Upon projecting them on a Screen thru r/g/b filters again, he got colors! His huge collection got solid to the Library of Concress, who has started scanning them and re-joining them. And the colors are, of course, stønning. I do the same, but combine them (as channells) in Photoshop. My experiences are a bit mixed, the color balanse is sometimes off, and I have to use a soft film (such as 400 ISO) and, of course, a tripod. But it works!Now, scanning b&W is a headache. My Epson V600 does a perfectly good job with slide and color negatives, but for the real monty I prefer my Reflaécta 7200 with 3600 ppi. However, getting the right scan is diffficult. Now that I think of it, they turn out kinda like good old «normal contrast» copies.
Enough about that. The films came out OK, gave the 7 mimutes, and both were developed. The Ilford looks a bit thin in places, but it could be mismetereing. When they’re dry, I can post some scans.
Im a total amatuer, just having shot loads of b&W film back in the old days when Tri-X was readily avaiable in bulk, and I loaded my on cassettes/cartridges. I used to have a darkroom, Now I have to use the bathroom and drag the enlarger in & out, and use abench for my trays. Still, it’s doable. But: I bought some multi-contrast paper and was gravely disappointed. Even with the filter for «high contrast», the prints looked like what your got from the entra soft papers (grade 0 or 1) back in the days. Nowhere near what you got with «normal grade» paper, or «3», in the old days. I once bought some «East Bloc» baryt paper. Nice enough, but impossible to stop yellowing. I used «fix killer» (old used-up paper developer) and rinsed them very well. Still they yellowd before you could say «yellow»…
I’ve tanken up «analougue photography» again simple because I have so much cameras and lenses (and getting a lens for a digital SLR costs an arm and a led and your firstborn…). Now my phone is my snapshot camera per excellence, but shooting on film, be it color, slides or b&W is something else. It’s old-school, and it’s plain cool, and it’s a harking back to the old days when you couldn’t see your pictures right away, you had to finish the roll and develop it and make prints… I’ve begun doing color in b&W, inspirer by the photographer of the Czar, who documented Russia in the late 1800s, using regular b&W plates and color filter (r/g/b), Upon projecting them on a Screen thru r/g/b filters again, he got colors! His huge collection got solid to the Library of Concress, who has started scanning them and re-joining them. And the colors are, of course, stønning. I do the same, but combine them (as channells) in Photoshop. My experiences are a bit mixed, the color balanse is sometimes off, and I have to use a soft film (such as 400 ISO) and, of course, a tripod. But it works!Now, scanning b&W is a headache. My Epson V600 does a perfectly good job with slide and color negatives, but for the real monty I prefer my Reflaécta 7200 with 3600 ppi. However, getting the right scan is diffficult. Now that I think of it, they turn out kinda like good old «normal contrast» copies.
Enough about that. The films came out OK, gave the 7 mimutes, and both were developed. The Ilford looks a bit thin in places, but it could be mismetereing. When they’re dry, I can post some scans.
