Wish me luck!

I would suggest using Ilfosol-3 at 1+14 and developing for 7:30 - You have a little more latitude on your timings. 4:15 is a pretty short development time, and you need to make sure you are bang on to get consistent results. At 7:30, ten seconds either way is not so much of a problem.
For a cheap stop, a teaspoon of citric acid from a chemist or grocery store works just as well and can be dumped at the end of each session.

 

Unless you're using Perma-Wash, I think your final wash time is too short.

 

Ilford recommended wash times with a non-hardening fixer is 5-10 min. That said, I usually do mine for around 20 min with a final rinse in Ilfotol/Photoflo

 

This website may give help you answer your excellent (not dumb!) question: http://www.ephotozine.com/article/assessing-negatives-4682

The illustrations therein suffer slightly from being reproduced on the web, but I think that it is still helpful.

In essence, more development makes the negative more dense, and increases contrast.

 

A camera problem. Which includes the subsets of "left the lenscap on my rangefinder" problem and "didn't set the synch right for my flash" problem and the "didn't load the film correctly" problem.

Or a "developed the wrong film" problem.

Did the very end of the film come out dark?

 

The "Ilford" along the edge is often referred to as either the "edge printing" or the "film rebate".

And it is the result of light exposure at the factory, combined with your development.

So its presence is a sign that your development procedure is either correct, or substantially so.

It looks like no light reached the film before you developed it.

 

No where but up! We've all been there! I loaded my first MF roll of 120 backwards...he.he....live n learn!

 

I assume you mean mirror lock-up mode.

Bet you won't do that again .

Look around APUG and you will find at least one thread that consists of everyone's "favourite" mistakes or accidents.

Read it, and you will know that you are in good company.

Best of luck for the next one.

 

It happens - things like that are like a right-of-passage.

You know those old westerns where the revolvers don't run out of bullets?
I recently took quite a few pictures (via three 120 backs) with the auto-exposure lock accidentally off; I'd not set it, but it had been bumped when pulled from the bag. It was in low light, so I couldn't see the counter, and it never seemed to get to the end of the roll.

Fortunately I realized the issue before unloading, so I can take the other 9 shots on each roll. Lost a lot of good pictures, though.

 

(Emphasis added by me)

Rewinding 120 film isn't quite as simple as you might think. Most likely you will end up with a bump where the tape attaches the film to the backing paper. To get it to feed smoothly again, you will need to pull up and then re-attach that tape.

The people who re-spool 120 film on to 620 spools for some older cameras have a lot of experience with this.

Glad you are finding joy.

 

O my this reminds me the shots of Rancid I took with the Minox. Magically took several shots after the film ran out of my niece (who was there at the concert with her boyfriend).

They broke up so at least I don't have to retouch him out of the pictures.

 

First roll of film I developed had slipped the reel (use hewes folks!) and about 1/3 of the shots were toast. Rest were alright though. It's actually pretty hard to screw up any film development significantly. Usually it's either a process mixup, or not enough exposure.

You got edge markers so you know your procedure is right!

 

"favourite" mistakes, no. Just the ones we will admit to in public

 

Bad luck.....keep going

Into every life a little rain must fall....

Everyone on APUG will have done the same, I have....but it just makes your eventual success the sweeter.

Simon ILFORD Photo / HARMAN technology Limited :

 

I wouldn't reuse it. You will get consistent results with one shot.
my 2 cents...Terry

 

Congratulations!

And as posted above, one shot developer shouldn't be reused. There are developers and development regimes that are designed to permit re-use, but using them is either more complex (involving replenishment, or extensions of time) or unusual process methods or results (two bath developers like Diafine).

Trust me - you will appreciate the simplicity of one shot until you are more in the swing of things again.