Disaster_Area
Gadget Monger
I didn't see, as I scanned your tutorials, where you covered the reason for stand/semi stand development. It is tempting to use stand or in this case semi stand to simplify the world. I do something similar with just minimal agitation. Mostly I do it because where I live and where I vacation it is scenes that will require highlight suppression (compensation). But luckily as someone above said you can rescue almost any negative with proper scanning and levels. I do that almost every day.
The reasons are spread throughout the tutorial, but the short version is:
- good for scanning
- good highlight AND shadow detail
- economical (uses much less developer than usual)
- idiot proof (it's REALLY hard to screw up and isn't much affected by too much/little soup time and temperature
- I'm lazy... I can just drop the film in and go watch TV
- you can soup different brands/ISO's at the same time