Pan F problems?

[MkII]

Thanks for your reply Simon, and everyone.

I've had a look at dates and there can't have been more than a month and a half between exposure and development of the attached picture, though the film had been in the camera for at least a month before that. All of the frames show the same grubbiness, even the last one taken just before development. I'm not sure this is a simple latency issue as it affects all exposures, not just the old ones. Storing in the camera for too long? Crap development?

I agree that developing films myself is the only way to be sure of what is going on, but I've found it best to send them off because [insert multiple reasons here, including time, chemicals going off, baby, time, baby, baby etc.]. Maybe next year...

 

[pentaxuser]

So the film had been in the camera for only two and a half months? Unless the camera was in the sun or otherwise exposed to a lot of heat for that period then I cannot see that time in camera is the cause.

If two and a half months in a camera results in a problem like this then I think Simon Galley and his company have a real problem with PanF+ and I do not think they do for a moment.

The problem lies elsewhere

pentaxuser

 

[Ian Grant]

I agree with Pentaxuser. I don't use Pan F very often but it does need careful exposure and development, by that I mean you need to do some tests to find the optimum EI and development time to give you the best results.

I'd suggest sending your next Pan F films to Ilfords own lab for processing and do some bracketing to see which exposures give you the best results.

Ian