Boy, I am having a very bad hair day.
This morning I planned several tests for a current project. Planned for the day was a film development test of TMY in PMK, and TXP in both D76 1:1 and Xtol.
OK, got through exposing and developing the TMY in PMK strips and immediately realized they were much too low in contrast for the time of development to be right. So I mused a bit and eventually figured out that I mixed a 1:2:300 dilution rather than 3:6:300 as would have been correct. So I congratulated myself for problem solving and did the test again. The time the negatives came out just so, I continued with Plan A.
Next up was TXP in D76 1:1. Exposed the negatives, mixed the D76 1:1 with water (or so I thought), and proceeded to develop the tests. When the first one came out of the stop bath I looked at it and thought, wow, this is a lot of contrast for 6 minutes of development in D76 1:1. At about the same instant I looked at the bottle of stock D76 and the label read Xtol. Not good.
Things are not going well at all, I say to myself, but continue with Plan A. I still need to test TXP in D76, so I exposed another set of negatives, mixed up another batch of D76 1:1 (or so I thought) and proceeded to development. When the first negative came out of the stop bath it was even more dense than the one developed in Xtol 1:1. So I scratch my head and try to figure out why the stock solutin of D76 had gained so much energy in the bottle overnight, since it worked great yesterday? Then I glanced over at the stock solution of D76, and the label read D72!!
So I am moving on to Plan B. Big glass of red wine and a movie on cable.
Sandy
This morning I planned several tests for a current project. Planned for the day was a film development test of TMY in PMK, and TXP in both D76 1:1 and Xtol.
OK, got through exposing and developing the TMY in PMK strips and immediately realized they were much too low in contrast for the time of development to be right. So I mused a bit and eventually figured out that I mixed a 1:2:300 dilution rather than 3:6:300 as would have been correct. So I congratulated myself for problem solving and did the test again. The time the negatives came out just so, I continued with Plan A.
Next up was TXP in D76 1:1. Exposed the negatives, mixed the D76 1:1 with water (or so I thought), and proceeded to develop the tests. When the first one came out of the stop bath I looked at it and thought, wow, this is a lot of contrast for 6 minutes of development in D76 1:1. At about the same instant I looked at the bottle of stock D76 and the label read Xtol. Not good.
Things are not going well at all, I say to myself, but continue with Plan A. I still need to test TXP in D76, so I exposed another set of negatives, mixed up another batch of D76 1:1 (or so I thought) and proceeded to development. When the first negative came out of the stop bath it was even more dense than the one developed in Xtol 1:1. So I scratch my head and try to figure out why the stock solutin of D76 had gained so much energy in the bottle overnight, since it worked great yesterday? Then I glanced over at the stock solution of D76, and the label read D72!!
So I am moving on to Plan B. Big glass of red wine and a movie on cable.
Sandy