Joakim Målare
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This evening I had planned to develop three rolls of 120 and also to try two rolls on one reel for the first time. I've read that this is possible on stainless steel reels (back to back), but I'm not very friendly with those even for single rolls so I picked the ordinary plastic reels with wide flaps.
From memory and a quick glance, the three rolls were the same (Pan F Plus), so I just picked two of them for the first tank, loaded the first roll onto the reel and attached the second roll edge to edge with the paper tape from the first roll. This was easier than I thought so that part was successful. Happy happy, joy joy.
When I emptied the changing bag and looked at the backing paper from the two rolls I realised they were NOT the same. I had loaded a Pan F and... a HP5! I didn't even know I had 400 film. Sigh... Anyway, I decided to move on like so since I had exposed all the rolls at 50. I loaded the third roll in a second tank and developed them all as Pan F for standard time.
After washing and hanging, I'm now looking at three Pan F again, all somewhat nicely exposed and developed. There was no HP5, although the backing paper does indeed say so.
As I recall, the three rolls came from the same brick which expired back in 2005/06 or so.
Have you encountered a film in the proper paper box, with the correct wrapping paper but the wrong backing paper? I never have before now, but the next time I'm not going to be very surprised 🙂 Might be a good idea to keep at least the wrapping paper on until loading to avoid confusion.
Take care!
/ Joakim
From memory and a quick glance, the three rolls were the same (Pan F Plus), so I just picked two of them for the first tank, loaded the first roll onto the reel and attached the second roll edge to edge with the paper tape from the first roll. This was easier than I thought so that part was successful. Happy happy, joy joy.
When I emptied the changing bag and looked at the backing paper from the two rolls I realised they were NOT the same. I had loaded a Pan F and... a HP5! I didn't even know I had 400 film. Sigh... Anyway, I decided to move on like so since I had exposed all the rolls at 50. I loaded the third roll in a second tank and developed them all as Pan F for standard time.
After washing and hanging, I'm now looking at three Pan F again, all somewhat nicely exposed and developed. There was no HP5, although the backing paper does indeed say so.
As I recall, the three rolls came from the same brick which expired back in 2005/06 or so.
Have you encountered a film in the proper paper box, with the correct wrapping paper but the wrong backing paper? I never have before now, but the next time I'm not going to be very surprised 🙂 Might be a good idea to keep at least the wrapping paper on until loading to avoid confusion.
Take care!
/ Joakim
