What went wrong?

[Snapper]

Last night I developed a 35mm film in my usual way - Neopan 400 in Rodinal 1+25 for 4.5 mins, Ilfostop, Hypam fix, wash and air dried. Nothing different from what I normally do. When I looked at the dried negative through the focus finder the whole film was covered in a maze of tiny cracks like crazy paving, which made the final print look really grainy. What happened - what did I do wrong?

 

[clogz]

It looks like reticulation= tiny cracks in the emulsion caused by great differences in temperature between liquids used in the dev process. Perhaps the water used for the final wash?

 

[Annemarieke]

Yes Hans, that's what I think too. Maybe the tap water suddenly became too hot?

 

[Nige]

I uploaded a scan of one I managed... see (there was a url link here which no longer exists)