Video of negative film development under infrared light

[radiant]

I wanted to see how film actually develops and captured the whole process on video..



Sorry about the potato quality but hey it's better than nothing

 

[pentaxuser]

Interesting, thanks

I recall seeing negatives which had been removed from development at a little as 2 mins in what was a 10-12 mins development time and I was amazed to see what had appeared at a little as 2 mins. If I recall the negs from even half the correct time of 5-6 mins looked as if they would have produced a reasonable print

This was from one of my instruction books on film developing but I cannot now recall which one

pentaxuser

 

[radiant]

I recall seeing negatives which had been removed from development at a little as 2 mins in what was a 10-12 mins development time and I was amazed to see what had appeared at a little as 2 mins. If I recall the negs from even half the correct time of 5-6 mins looked as if they would have produced a reasonable print

This was from one of my instruction books on film developing but I cannot now recall which one

pentaxuser

Yes, it was a quite surprise that the first details developed in 30 seconds. Rodinal 1+25 is quite strong mix so that might explain some. After few minutes the changes were pretty slow. I was thinking what happens if I keep developing for example 1 hour with constant agitation

 

[nickandre]

Isn't this the whole zone system idea? The shadows are kindof fixed but if you extend the development time it increases the contrast by developing the highlights more. So if you have a short development time you'll get a low contrast negative, push it you get a very high contrast negative.

 

[baachitraka]

NIce

 

[radiant]

Isn't this the whole zone system idea? The shadows are kindof fixed but if you extend the development time it increases the contrast by developing the highlights more. So if you have a short development time you'll get a low contrast negative, push it you get a very high contrast negative.

Yes of course it is so. And if you want to increase contrast (or highlight density) alone, then just "underexpose" so that the shadows won't have anything to grow density in. I've knew this in theory but it just hits so much harder when doing stuff in reality.

 

[Wayne]

very nice choice of music. Don't you know you're supposed to have someone playing garbage cans in the background of youtube videos?

 

[radiant]

very nice choice of music. Don't you know you're supposed to have someone playing garbage cans in the background of youtube videos?

Thank you. You don't want to watch my other videos .. This one has music made by me, I even sampled my own drums:

 

[reddesert]

I liked the film developing video, potato quality no problem. I haven't wet printed in a while due to space and time limits, but there was always something magical about watching the image appear in the developing tray.

 

[Juan Valdenebro]

Thanks!
I had seen it on paper only...
Very nice!

 

[relistan]

Very cool! Interesting to see it happen on film. It looks to me just like what happens on paper, but in slow motion. And that's kind of cool because it gives you a better sense of what is happening. Thanks for posting!

 

[Tim Gray]

Thanks for this - very cool.

 

[radiant]

You're welcome all! Thanks for the comments.

The fixing is pretty interesting; it is really really fast. As I've been shooting Foma lately, I don't do any long fixing times anymore