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Currently have a roll of Pan F+ and Delta 100 in Rodinal with about 30 min left. Normally I like to listen to music and read, but I forgot my book at home. So instead I'm reading through apug and the photography subreddits.


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Clean up as I go.
 
Agitate 4 inversions per minute while I stand at the sink during normal development.
 
Watch TV, read a book, browse the internet, order pizza, argue with roommates, whatever fits the occasion.
 
I set the kitchen timer for 60 minutes and load cassettes with film, I have tankage for up to 25 films so 25 cassettes to load that I just emptied.
 
leave the door open because my wife and children are around and i feel proud doing so!
 
Contemplate the error of your ways in particular using stand development. :smile:
 
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Contemplate the error of your ways in particular using stand development. :smile:

Funny you should mention that--I managed to make a rookie mistake and didn't fill the tank enough so there is a line across the Pan F+ :/
 
Funny you should mention that--I managed to make a rookie mistake and didn't fill the tank enough so there is a line across the Pan F+ :/

Sorry to hear that. I always think of darkroom work as being similar to carpentry. "Measure twice, cut once."
 
Funny you should mention that--I managed to make a rookie mistake and didn't fill the tank enough so there is a line across the Pan F+ :/

I fill until the developer reaches the cone of the funnel even if the tank does not have a full complement of reels.

Stick cap on and invert once slowly.
 
I fill until the developer reaches the cone of the funnel even if the tank does not have a full complement of reels.

Stick cap on and invert once slowly.

That's what I did. It just bubbled up before the whole tank was full for whatever reason. Enough developer was gone from the graduate I didn't notice it wasn't all the way full.


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Well I have had ocassionally when I do the inversion and removed the cap needed to add some more to get back to the base of the cone or higher.

I use a stock bottle so don't know how much I might have added.

Id hate to have top half of 36 missing.
 
Well I have had ocassionally when I do the inversion and removed the cap needed to add some more to get back to the base of the cone or higher.

I use a stock bottle so don't know how much I might have added.

Id hate to have top half of 36 missing.

Luckily it was 120 so I only lost the top 1/4th of 10 shots. Still somewhat annoying though.
 
Don't believe in it, sorry. I am an agitator.

Normally I am too, but I like how Rodinal works with slow films. Plus the Rodinal is almost completely finished off now--only took a year!
 
Sex.....as for the other 59 minutes and 45 seconds.......

Wow! That's what I call a quickie! I have 59 minutes to spare and that's 45 seconds less than you. I usually check the Internet, watch TV or read for my 59 minutes. Of course there have been a few times where I actually went a bit over the 59 minute mark by mistake, but Rodinal 1:100 is very forgiving with a slightly longer stand time. John W
 
I am usually scanning the previous negatives while I have another roll in the tank.
 
Well, here is proof that this stupid stand development fad, in addition to ruin negatives, actually wastes time instead of "saving" time, as people like to believe.

I'd rather develop in hc110 dilution A, or in Rodinal 1:10, for 3 minutesand get a much nicer negative then waste 60 minutes and make-believe to myself that it was hassle-free.
 
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