what is the last thing you developed or printed

[MartinP]

Are the Paterson reels not usable for 110 then ? IIRC they were.

The standard reels are adjustable for 135, 127 and 120. It's possible to cut the tracks from the female part of the pair and then epoxy it on further down the central round part, in order to bring the two tracks closer together. Care is required to keep them reasonably parallel and one must allow enough wiggle-room to allow the film to slide without binding up (eg. don't have the base of the tracks exactly 16mm apart for 16mm wide film). This general method is used to modify Jobo reels for Minox film, but with Paterson reels it might be necessary to remove the ball-bearings from the ratchet devices.

 

[swittmann]

I developed a roll from my Pentax 6x7 today. Yesterday, I spent some hours in the darkroom printing and before that, developed some 4x5" film. I took a week off from work, so I can do a little more for my hobby than usual. Do I really have to get back to work next week? :confused: LOL!

 

[sagai]

Test exposures of Foma Retropan in Foma retro special developer

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

In Ilfotec DD, which I was given ten liters concentrate of by a kind soul, and I finally started using and replenishing.
4 - 120 Tri-X
4 - 120 HP5
2 - 135-36 HP5

In C-41 color neg developer, a batch I mixed 9 months ago, and the film is coming out perfect.
1 - 120 Velvia 50 cross processed
1 - 120 Fuji NPC
1 - 135-24 Kodak Ultra 400
1 - 135-36 Kodak 200UC
1 - 135-36 Fuji 800 NPZ
1 - 135-24 Fuji Superia 200 - this one is an interesting roll of film, which I found in my deceased grandmother's old point and shoot Minolta.

 

[Sirius Glass]

1 - 135-24 Kodak Ultra 400
1 - 135-36 Kodak 200UC

Very good for the red rock in southern Utah and northern Arizona. I have my private stash in the freezer.

 

[winger]

I re-inaugurated my darkroom today! I mostly did contact sheets of the 4x5 sheets I've shot over the last 2 years, but also did a print for a study group I'm in. In one day, I've used 20 sheets of a 25 sheet box. And I only need to make 4 more contact sheets, so I might just do those later tonight.

Woo hoo!!! Very nice to be smelling chemicals again.

 

[Wayne]

I developed twelve 4x5 sheets of Ektar 100, and discovered that an empty box of 8x10 Arista 125 (FP4+) that I bought 15 years ago and has been sitting on my darkroom table for years had one sheet left in it. Sweet!

 

[TheToadMen]

I re-inaugurated my darkroom today! ... Woo hoo!!! Very nice to be smelling chemicals again.

Congratulations, enjoy !!

 

[Peter de Groot]

I developed 9 rolls of black and white, 5 rolls of c41 and 6 4x5 sheets c41.

 

[JPJackson]

6 5x7 sheets of Delta 100; 3 in D76 1+1; 3 in Xtol 1+1

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Very good for the red rock in southern Utah and northern Arizona. I have my private stash in the freezer.

I'm not usually shooting color pictures, but sometimes I do when I travel. This trip I had brought only Ilford HP5, but my dad gave me some C41 film that he wasn't going to use, so I put that in a camera and used it up. Those films just happened on me, and there was only chance involved in picking them.
I still have to process the following color film:
1 - 135-36 Kodak Ektachrome 320T (cross process)
1 - 135-36 Kodak Ektachrome 400X (cross process)
2 - 135-36 Kodak Ektachrome E100G (cross process)
1 - 135-36 Lomochrome Purple
1 - 135-36 Kodak Gold 200

All of them were given to me except for the Lomochrome Purple, which I'm very interested in.

 

[Ian Grant]

3 sheets of 5x4 HP5, I went to photograph Tornado (a steam loco built/finished in 2008) on Sunday evening with a 360mm Tele-Xenar, the light dropped 5 stops as I waited - it was over30 minutes late. The first 2 shots of another loco were 1/100 @ f11 200EI, with Tornado it was 1/50 @ f5.5 1200 EI so two tanks, the first shots were developed normally in Pyricat HD for 17mins, the 3rd I guessed and processed for 28mins and luckily the negative look OK

Ian

 

[Black Dog]

3 sheets of 5x4 HP5, I went to photograph Tornado (a steam loco built/finished in 2008) on Sunday evening with a 360mm Tele-Xenar, the light dropped 5 stops as I waited - it was over30 minutes late. The first 2 shots of another loco were 1/100 @ f11 200EI, with Tornado it was 1/50 @ f5.5 1200 EI so two tanks, the first shots were developed normally in Pyricat HD for 17mins, the 3rd I guessed and processed for 28mins and luckily the negative look OK

Ian

Always a relief when they do!

 

[Kevin Caulfield]

Six 4x5 sheets using my Travelwide, using an Angulon lens and the Pinwide. Five Acros and one HP5. Developed in FX37 1 +3 for 5 minutes at 20 C.

 

[Kevin Caulfield]

3 sheets of 5x4 HP5, I went to photograph Tornado (a steam loco built/finished in 2008) on Sunday evening with a 360mm Tele-Xenar, the light dropped 5 stops as I waited - it was over30 minutes late. The first 2 shots of another loco were 1/100 @ f11 200EI, with Tornado it was 1/50 @ f5.5 1200 EI so two tanks, the first shots were developed normally in Pyricat HD for 17mins, the 3rd I guessed and processed for 28mins and luckily the negative look OK

Ian

Don't you love recalculating exposure time in your head during exposure?

 

[Oscar Carlsson]

I've just developed my first 4x5 sheets ever, it was scary but the negatives look OK from my initial inspection. I developed them in HC-110, shot on TXP 320. I recently bought a Chamonix 045n-2 as my first 4x5, this is going to be fun!

I also souped two rolls of TMAX 100 in R09, shot on a foggy morning with my Fuji GW690III so they were given some extra time to pump up the contrast.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Two rolls of 135 Tri-X in replenished XTOL.

 

[removed account4]

handful of brown craft paper cyanotypes
white paper ones are much better

 

[MatthewDunn]

I recently printed some photos I had taken at a local skatepark here in San Francisco. I hope the link to Instagram is permitted (though perhaps unfashionable) -https://instagram.com/p/9Rvqf1tppE/?taken-by=radiofreemattd - 11x14 Ilford Art 300 is absolutely a dream to my eye...

 

[Maris]

Twenty four 8x10 gelatin-silvers on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB featuring some infrared macro from Efke IR820 roll film and some soft focus nudes from 4x5 Tmax 100. They're in the archival washer now while I take a sit down rest in front of the computer.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

I made 40 contact sheets and about 15 actual prints over the weekend. All on 8x10 paper, contacts on RC, and prints on fiber.
I was given a ton of old RC paper that is still in decent shape, so I'm using them up for contact sheets.

I also made the print in the attachment, which is 8x8" on 11x14 paper. It's been a long time since I printed anything for real, so I ended up warming up with these prints in order to be more productive until the end of the year.

 

[Mainecoonmaniac]

Gorgeous print! I find being in the darkroom very therapeutic. I haven't printed in months but I hope I'll get some darkroom time end of the year when my job at the university slows down a bit when the kids are away on holiday.

 

[David Lingham]

First time in the darkroom for 2 months. Printed some 10x8 MGIV FB Classic, from recent 35 mm FP4.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Gorgeous print! I find being in the darkroom very therapeutic. I haven't printed in months but I hope I'll get some darkroom time end of the year when my job at the university slows down a bit when the kids are away on holiday.

I really hope you get some time too! My problem was that I hadn't felt the joy of printing in a while, but it was more down to me just getting my printing pants on and doing it. Once into it I rediscovered how much fun it is. There's nothing quite like it, and it was so nice not to scan negs to look at the film.

 

[Mainecoonmaniac]

Thanks Thomas! I felt the same thing when I was shooting professionally. Though I shot the photographs, printing for clients (production printing) gets old fast. Since it was for money, the game was to be efficient. Getting everything calibrated, dialed in so I'd spend as less time in the darkroom as possible to shoot more work. It was just mechanical and not creative at all. It took a while for me to recover the joy of printing. Now it's therapy time.