I really don't think a few degrees one way or the other would make a difference, but it's worth a try and it cost nothing.
I really don't think a few degrees one way or the other would make a difference, but it's worth a try and it cost nothing.Wait... Problem may come from 20℃ temperature... I will test room temp developing.
Then it must be a developer "style or type" problem. If things are fine with Rodinal and not with a Vitamin C type developer then there has to be a reason why. I'd start looking at your water quality if you're not using distilled water. Maybe something in your water doesn't like something in your Vitamin C style developer. Maybe Rodinal doesn't care what's in your water? If you use distilled water for all the steps in your developing process I don't know where else to look for the problem. What I'm saying is if you're not using distilled water I'd certainly give that a try since it would be a pretty cheap fix. I wish you luck!
I think what we're talking about is not the big artifacts, but the small ones here:That appears to be light fog - it is a faint image, rather than a problem with chemicals.
That appears to be light fog - it is a faint image, rather than a problem with chemicals.
@MsLing are you still using a soak prior to development? I'm clutching at straws here, obviously. It's really odd. I wouldn't be surprised if you would hit upon a sheet of film that breaks the pattern of this particular type of developer correlating with this particular defect. I.e. it might be a 'simple' case of one sheet being affected, while the next one isn't, regardless of how the film is developed.
Quite nice. Rodinal 1+100+2g sodium isoascorbate/L
another version with pure water.
Certainly looks like it, although you may now have something else going on here:
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However, maybe this is not in the actual negative and it's just an artifact of photographing the negative. I boosted the contrast in the example above to make it easier to see what I'm referring to.
I scratched my head on that one too Paul?Why keep exploring this problem if you’ve identified an alternative developer that works well with the Fomapan?? Just use what works and forget the Ascorbate developers.
I can relate. You run into this one particular thing that you'd expect should work - and yet, it doesn't. So you keep pushing it until you get it to work, even if there's an alternative. Is it necessarily productive? Perhaps not. Sometimes we learn a thing or two in this way; whether that's worth it, I guess is kind of individual. Either way, I think the option of just sticking to a working alternative has occurred to OP. Apparently they prefer not to. As bystanders, we're then left with the choice to either help them or to step aside.
Why keep exploring this problem if you’ve identified an alternative developer that works well with the Fomapan?? Just use what works and forget the Ascorbate developers.
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