Okay, I've developed two more rolls of film and they still don't look right. I exposed in broad daylight at F11 for a 500th of a second. The first roll I processed for seven minutes fixed for five, washed for thirty. All of my steps were carried out in the most exacting manner I could muster. The second roll I processed for 7:30 and fixed for six minutes. Both rolls seem to have this brown sort of look to them. When I printed them I set my aperture on 5.6, my developer was 72 degrees and I exposed them for 42 seconds on Ilford RC variable contrast paper. I developed them for 60 seconds. The second roll looked better than the first but I would not say either looks stellar.
I haven't done this in several years but I remember it being easy and it's not turning out that way. I must be making all kinds of errors; It seems like 42 seconds is a really long time for an 8x10 set at 14 inches high at 5.6, I recall, however faintly, that my enlargements were around ten or twelve seconds. (I could be mistaken though) I think I'm forgetting some things in the printing process and the negative issue I can only guess that the film or chemistry has gone bad. In the last two rolls there's fogging. I bought new cassettes and loaded/unloaded/reeled them in the darkroom so maybe something happened to this 100 foot roll of film?
I will do the whole process over again tomorrow.
Here's a scan of the negative with no adjustments. I think it looks really odd.
