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When was the last time you screwed up ...

I keep wondering if I’ll screw up tomorrow.
 
I do not schedule screw ups ahead of time.
 
Based on the appearance of at least on of the 4x5 negs that just came out of the soup...once today.

And since I haven't been able to print them yet there are still multiple opportunities lying in wait. Check back tomorrow.
 

1 week in uncooked rice should do the trick.
 
Two days ago. Loaded two sheets of Adox CMS 20 together on the side of holder. The film base is a tad thinner than what I'm used to but not as thin as Rollei IR.
 
Yesterday morning I was dinghying in a small bay when I saw 2 turtles sunbathing on a piece of wood.
I pulled my camera out of the bag but, when I pointed it at the subject, the viewfinder was blurry.
I thought maybe it was due to a ray of light but when I turned around the camera...
Them turtles swam away but I had a good laugh.

 
Got some stuff together for a trip out of town a couple of weeks ago. Grabbed a camera body and was careful to choose three lenses that use the same filter size so I could reduce the amount of stuff to carry. ....then grabbed filters and lens hoods of a different size. No camera shop near where I was staying so it was a week of no filters and no hoods. *sigh*
 
Well I haven't had that one happen for a while .......
I had four rolls of 120 to develop - 2 with one, normal N developing time and two with another, longer N + 1 developing time.
Loaded two rolls of each onto a single Paterson clone reel (as I frequently do) and put each loaded reel into its own 2x120 roll Paterson tank, with an empty spacer roll on top.
Marked each tank accordingly.
Planned out a workflow that would result in each set of rolls going through developer and stop bath separately, and then be combined (without spacer rolls) in one tank for fixing, rinse, HCA and washing steps. In essence, relying on the ability to expose the film to light after the stop bath (ala BTZS technique). I hadn't tried this before, so I was concentrating on the experiment.
Got everything set up, and started on the tank with the rolls for N + 1 developing.
The pre-rinse went in, and I put the tank on the rotary agitator for my usual 3 minutes - just like always.
I took the tank off the agitator, removed the cap for pouring, inverted the tank to empty it and the light-tight lid merrily popped off and into the sink, leaving the contents of the tank exposed to the light!
ARRGH!
I hurriedly re-attached the light-tight lid, double-checked that it was clicked in place properly - as I normally do every time, but obviously didn't do this time - and proceeded to finish my planned procedures for that and the other tank.
The result?
The film in the second tank is fine. The two rolls in the first tank both have edge fogging that protrudes into the image area at least a little bit. There are usable negatives there - my two recent uploads in the Photrio Gallery came from those rolls.
The message to take from this? If you are going to experiment, don't get distracted from those usual safeguards - like double-checking the seal on the tank - that you generally rely upon.
 
I did that once while pouring out the developer (also 120 vacation stuff), yet somehow got no serious light leaks...
 
everybody can screw things up once in a while but, it takes me to make a real mess of things.
 
I exposed a very old roll of Plus-X which had been laying around for years. Unfortunately, it had already been exposed more than 10 years ago. Now I have a roll of double exposures. I'm curious to see how they turn out!
 
I loaded a roll (120) of Acros i think, into a spiral, placed it in the tank, then went outside the darkroom to develop it.
Instead of removing the small lid and pouring in the developer, i opened the tank and poured in the developer. Only seconds later i realized i was looking straight at the emulsion.
Of all the +10 rolls i had to develop it had to be the one i was most keen to see developed.
 
I found my last roll of bulk loaded 35mm Ultrafine 400, loaded my Topcon auto 100 and went for walk in the botanical garden. Shot the entire roll, got home and developed it. Took a peek after the fix before the first wash and hypo clearing seemed dark. After the final wash and wetting agent unwound the film and the entire roll was dense. Took a really close look, the entire roll was double exposed, the shots I taken at the garden was over a woman's soccer game. I use either a Minolta 9000 or 9 when I shoot sports, the cameras rewound the film but for some reason did not get all the leader back into the can. I then realized that I had loaded too much film into the canister so there was not enough room for the leader to be rewound back into the can. Have no idea why I didn't miss that roll when I processed the the other rolls and over time exposed roll was mixed in with the other unexposed rolls. So does this count as 1, 2 or 3 screw ups?
 
This afternoon I loaded a roll of Fujicolor 200 thinking it was a roll of Provia 100F. Probably should have looked a little more closely at the cassette.
 
I just tried mixing my own powder developer for the first time and I'm afraid I got dust particles in it because I didn't put my mixer in a bag.
We'll see what happens next.
 
TheGreatGasMaskMan said:
I just tried mixing my own powder developer for the first time and I'm afraid I got dust particles in it because I didn't put my mixer in a bag.
We'll see what happens next.
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Next time slowly pour the powder in warm water. Small amounts of the powder at a time. And carefully follow the instructions. That will assure not putting powder in the air and will assure the powder completely mixes.
 
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