Terao
Kiloran
Well, I did my first ever roll this evening and something went wrong. Perhaps starting with 120 rollfilm wasn't the best idea but as that's what I'll mainly be shooting I felt it was appropriate to dive in the deep end.
These grey blotches are evenly spaced 3 frames of 6x7 apart. They cover one half of each frame. Seem to be on the upper surface of the film (shiny side up, lettering/numbers on the rebates are readable L-R). If I lay the film flat so that its mainly black I can see these grey blotches very clearly on the shiny side. On the other side I can only see them in the rebates. Holding the film up to the light I can see the shot detail through the grey.
Film was Tri-X rated at ISO400 and developed for 8 minutes in 1+4 Ilford DD-X @ 20 degrees followed by Ilfostop followed by Ilford RapidFix for 4 minutes. Washed the tank in running water at process temperature for 5 minutes.
Having typed all this out I'm guessing uneven development? I used 500ml of dev in a two reel tank (AP tank). Only put one reel in, didn't take up the spare space, will that have been a bad idea? I was agitating every minute for 10 seconds by inverting the tank 5 times.
I also had a few problems loading the reel. Whilst I'd practised with a previously developed roll of 120 I hadn't taken into account the whole backing paper thing so didn't know what to expect and ended up touching the film probably more than I would have liked sorting that problem out. Might that have caused a problem?
Have to say though I'm already hooked. Its cool to be able to do the whole thing yourself, B&W film dev typically takes a week here particularly when you start doing weird stuff like pushing 2 stops (I know, its not weird at all but it is to a minilab). Its cool to learn a whole new skill 🙂
These grey blotches are evenly spaced 3 frames of 6x7 apart. They cover one half of each frame. Seem to be on the upper surface of the film (shiny side up, lettering/numbers on the rebates are readable L-R). If I lay the film flat so that its mainly black I can see these grey blotches very clearly on the shiny side. On the other side I can only see them in the rebates. Holding the film up to the light I can see the shot detail through the grey.
Film was Tri-X rated at ISO400 and developed for 8 minutes in 1+4 Ilford DD-X @ 20 degrees followed by Ilfostop followed by Ilford RapidFix for 4 minutes. Washed the tank in running water at process temperature for 5 minutes.
Having typed all this out I'm guessing uneven development? I used 500ml of dev in a two reel tank (AP tank). Only put one reel in, didn't take up the spare space, will that have been a bad idea? I was agitating every minute for 10 seconds by inverting the tank 5 times.
I also had a few problems loading the reel. Whilst I'd practised with a previously developed roll of 120 I hadn't taken into account the whole backing paper thing so didn't know what to expect and ended up touching the film probably more than I would have liked sorting that problem out. Might that have caused a problem?
Have to say though I'm already hooked. Its cool to be able to do the whole thing yourself, B&W film dev typically takes a week here particularly when you start doing weird stuff like pushing 2 stops (I know, its not weird at all but it is to a minilab). Its cool to learn a whole new skill 🙂
