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I was rummaging around a box of camera stuff in my mum's house, which was mostly inherited from a great aunt who died a few years ago....opened up an Agfa Synchro box camera and found a roll of Ilford Selochrome, exposed and properly wound and taped up.

I gave it a go for 12 minutes in ID-11 and have a couple of frames with recognisable images....one seems to be a railway goods yard. What I really need is a high quality 120 neg scanner, to get the most from these very faint images.
 
2 x 12-16 prints on Kentmere,. One was a little under exposed, the other was fine. It was from an FP4+ neg developed in FX39, a couple of weeks ago. I am still a bit dissapointed by the lack of apparent contrast exhibited by Kentmere since the take-over by Ilford. With the 'old' Kentmere I would have not had to use any filtration. To get a decent black I had to use 50M (Grade3) to get the same level of contrast. The developer was fresh and little used, only about half a dozen test strips and the two 12x16 prints.
 
started to make negs from my interpozzes this morning, only to find tiny dusts and hairs in the shadows.
humbug.
some swears ensued.
so remade the inters again, this time with lots of polishing and puffing.
then made a couple of negs from different inters using guesswork and crossed fingers to set exposure and development times.
perfect.
so, whistling a happy tune, I washed up my trays and scrubbed some old silver nitrate stains off the bath with a mixture of citric acid and rapid fix.
 
Made a sepiaprint from one of my ulfy-enlarged negatives.
Unsatisfactory.
Negative too dense, autumn-winter light in my backyard (open shadow) too wan, result rather low-contrast print.

SO as there was nothing on tv, I spent the last hour dunking a couple of negs in Farmer's and then tidying up. One of the negatives looks better. FIngers crossed for some light later in the week.

Not having a permanent darkroom is a constant frustration and unlikely to be resolved for at least a year, if then.


Humbug.
 
Six sheets of 4x5 Tech Pan developed...my, my, I got all the contrast I wanted...and more in a couple of them!
 
Vaughn said:
Six sheets of 4x5 Tech Pan developed...my, my, I got all the contrast I wanted...and more in a couple of them!
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I've found Tech Pan fantastic for really low contrast scenes!
 
made a sepiaprint from my farmered negative.
bit better.
needs more contrast.
realised I've now run out of paper, so ordered some. bad planning. and the sun's out.
bah.
 
First tests of some ORWO DP-3 duplicating positive film. Develops fast, so I overdid it by a good bit. I was advised to start at ISO 3, but I think I may get away with 6. Not the best time of year to be testing this, as we are into the grey days now.
 
Developed a hand full of rolls of Kodak Plus-X in some Xtol from 1986 that I inherited from a customer of mine. Needed a little more time to cook, but the densities were ok.
 
Rough day today. I developed five rolls, two rolls of 35mm and three rolls of 120, all FP4+ souped in Ilfosol 3. Of the two 35mm rolls, one of them was completely blank. It must has slipped the take up on my Konica IIIa. Then, of the three rolls of 120, one ended up having some serious light leaks that are a mystery to me. This was the 10th or 11th roll I've put through my S2a, all with the same film back. I've shot it multiple times in full sun without issue. Now all of a sudden half of my most recent roll is ruined... sigh
 
Black Dog said:
I've found Tech Pan fantastic for really low contrast scenes!
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And great for getting the density range of 'normal' scenes pumped up to be able to print with alternative processes (specifically carbon printing.) I am going to have to back off with the development with the rest of the sheets of film...and switch developers. I have some Technidol around (just read the instructions). One packet (for 8oz) can develop two 35mm rolls of film: or eight 4x5s in theory. So in theory, I could use one packet for six 4x5 sheets of Tech Pan in the Expert 3006, mixed with 500ml of water (instead of 250ml), or perhaps 750ml -- I'll have to read up again on the max for a 3006 Drum.

But I am having the same experience I had with Kodak Copy Film. The amount of contrast control one has is wonderful once one learns to control it! :cool:

If I cannot control the contrast in the 3006 drum, I'll have to switch back to tray development for Tech Pan. I realize that "No more tray development." was not written into my retirement contract, but I'll avoid it if I can! But alas, my supply of 4x5 Tech Pan will run out before my Technidol -- and before my enthusiasim for the project!

But now I have 6 new rolls of 120 (Tri-X and Acros from this weekend in Yosemite) and a backlog of too many 8x10 B&W architectural images to process in addition to my 4x5 Tech Pan! And far too many beautiful negatives, waiting in their sleeves, unprinted, and crying for attention! Such nasty First World problems...
 
Vaughn said:
And great for getting the density range of 'normal' scenes pumped up to be able to print with alternative processes (specifically carbon printing.) I am going to have to back off with the development with the rest of the sheets of film...and switch developers. I have some Technidol around (just read the instructions). One packet (for 8oz) can develop two 35mm rolls of film: or eight 4x5s in theory. So in theory, I could use one packet for six 4x5 sheets of Tech Pan in the Expert 3006, mixed with 500ml of water (instead of 250ml), or perhaps 750ml -- I'll have to read up again on the max for a 3006 Drum.

But I am having the same experience I had with Kodak Copy Film. The amount of contrast control one has is wonderful once one learns to control it! :cool:

If I cannot control the contrast in the 3006 drum, I'll have to switch back to tray development for Tech Pan. I realize that "No more tray development." was not written into my retirement contract, but I'll avoid it if I can! But alas, my supply of 4x5 Tech Pan will run out before my Technidol -- and before my enthusiasim for the project!

But now I have 6 new rolls of 120 (Tri-X and Acros from this weekend in Yosemite) and a backlog of too many 8x10 B&W architectural images to process in addition to my 4x5 Tech Pan! And far too many beautiful negatives, waiting in their sleeves, unprinted, and crying for attention! Such nasty First World problems...
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I know the feeling!:wink:
 
A roll of HP5+...part shot on a quick trip to Torquay, part in Bridgwater (nice shots of a church at night) and partly in Croydon of all places. Just shooting for the hell of it :smile:
 
Yesterday I made some prints from some 6x6 negs and dry-mounted today. They're photos of an antique motorcycle that I took a few weeks ago. Used a 500C/M with a Planar lens, Ultrafine Extreme 400 film, Ultrafine (generic) FB paper, did a second fixing bath, selenium-toned, and archival washed. They'll certainly outlast me.
 
Silly me! I developed five 8x10 negatives...some architectural work of a home out in the woods. Got sort of excited about them, so I loaded another four negs from (I thought) same project. They ended up being some 8x10 and 4x10 images taken along the coast just as 2015 was ending. Nice surprise, but I would have given them a little bit more development if I had known. I just loading up another batch in the Jobo -- I think it is the rest of house images, but I won't be surprised of any more sea scenes sneak in! I'll develop them tomorrow when I have room on my drying wires (along with 4 rolls of 120 from a recent Sierra/Yosemite trip). Whatever the 8x10s end up being, it will be nice to have the rest of my 8x10 holders ready to be dusted out and filled with film! Nine holders already loaded with FP4+ and ready to go...eight to dust out and fill! One nice holder recently bit the dust and I might have a few more holders hiding somewhere, as I thought I had around 20...enough for a week trip.
 
Got 4 rolls of 120 400TX developed yesterday from my Veterans Weekend in and around Yosemite -- looking good! Time to cut them up and get them in the print files! I digitally copied one of the 8x10 images I develpoed two days ago and inverted it in PhotoShop...just to get an idea of what the image was like -- might make a platinum print of it, or one of its companion 4x10 of about the same image.

Edited to add an image of two 4x10s on an 8x10 sheet of film of the scene above. FP4+ in Ilford Universal PQ Developer (1:20) in an Expert drum (3005)...and an example of the 400TX in HC-110 (Dil.B)

Need to do some printing!
 

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Three prints today on (there was a url link here which no longer exists)
Two 6x9cm, one 40x50cm
Getting there with the big ones.
Slowly.
 
took the advantage of the best weather yeasterday: frost, fog and sun and wonderful back light.

Exposed 4 rolls of HP5+ outside with 6x9. Although gave n-2 in Rodinal 1+50 it hasn't been enough. The light box tells me something about >= n-5 would have been much better. So, half of them I have to repeat somehow.
 
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