w00t I'm getting there (Kodak Ultratec)

[kb244]

Ok been playing with this bulk reel of Kodak UltraTec for a while getting the numbers down and what not. I was supposed to head to a friend's house to give him a ride to work this morning, except I was about an hour two early, so I went downtown nearby and stopped at the Sixth Street Park off of Michigan Ave, in Downtown Grand Rapids. Took a few shots of the historic bridge and some river scenes, the sun was just coming up so I set my Minolta autometer IVf to meter for ISO 6 with 1 second as the base shutter. I would get a result roughly f/8 to half between f/8 and f/11, so most of the shots were done f/8, f/5.6, and f/11 for each scene (metered, over, under). These scans here are of the spot-on metered as the over and under either loss too much details, or had no tones at all in between.

I developed the roll in my unicolor dum, using 130ml of total fluid (4ml HC-110, 126ml water, ie: Dilution B), for about 3 minutes at 68F/20C.

two frame stitched panoramic



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The varnum building down the river

Watered floral *shot at f/5.6, likely still needed more to go

and for fun I did my first positive negative duplication in the bathroom by taking a frame from an existing Neopan 400 negative, taping it to an unexposed UltraTec strip undersafelight, then hitting it with a quick flash of a LED pocket light from about 3 feet away. And developing it under HC-110 Dil.B for 1:30 @ 68F.

 

[Jerevan]

It's starting to look like something now... I like the first panoramic one, although it's burnt out in the left side, almost to the point of the building disappearing into the white skies. I think it could be used to make nice high-key photos, if one can get the lighter shades to stay separated.

 

[Donald Qualls]

Seriously -- try diluting your HC-110 a bit more to get longer process times, and if possible, reduce agitation. At a minimum, change to Dilution H (1+63) and convert 3 minutes to 6 (and then cut it back to 5 or a bit less).

If you process with intermittent agitation, you'll gain film speed by going to Dilution F (1+79) and processing for 10 minutes with agitation every third minute -- probably pick up half a stop to a full stop, as well as making it much easier to control the contrast.

You are, however, getting close...

 

[kb244]

Seriously -- try diluting your HC-110 a bit more to get longer process times, and if possible, reduce agitation. At a minimum, change to Dilution H (1+63) and convert 3 minutes to 6 (and then cut it back to 5 or a bit less).

If you process with intermittent agitation, you'll gain film speed by going to Dilution F (1+79) and processing for 10 minutes with agitation every third minute -- probably pick up half a stop to a full stop, as well as making it much easier to control the contrast.

You are, however, getting close...

I'd have to use an inversion tank to do what you just said, as Drums use constant agitation.