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... you decide to try stand developing a test roll from a new camera... you carefully measure out 250cc of water 68 degree water, 2.5cc of developer, mix carefully, prewash your film, set your timer for 60 minutes and add the developer to the reel, agitate for 30 seconds, knock 4 times to get rid of air bubbles and then wait.

And then at the 45 minute mark realize you are an idiot because you are developing a roll of 120 and made a basic error above.....
Shawn (banging head against the wall)

At least I can check frame spacing, exposure, focus and for light leaks. Was nothing special on the roll so not terrible upset about the images themselves.
 
Sorry to hear Shawn

only once did I pour by accident the fixer first instead of developer...
out came a totally BLANK roll, so I sat mesmerized, in disbelief
till I realized what I did
never again did I premix my solutions,
arghhhhh to some lessons we learn
 
Thanks, I was too excited to see what should have been monster negatives. 30+ years of developing and I have never done this before. This should make sure I don't do it again.

On the plus side the camera looks like it is working great.

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Shawn
 
helenhill said:
Sorry to hear Shawn

only once did I pour by accident the fixer first instead of developer...
out came a totally BLANK roll, so I sat mesmerized, in disbelief
till I realized what I did
never again did I premix my solutions,
arghhhhh to some lessons we learn
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I have been premixing solutions, but I check the developer twice before pouring. Also, when I remove the cover from the fixer, the smell of hypo is very distinct... Of course I am only up to roll 6 in the resurgence from my multi-decadal halting of self developing.
 
I hate it when;
Am gifted a Kodak Tourist with a low spec but perfectly clean 100mm f8.8 triplet with a functional shutter. The bellows ‘looks’ good.
Spend an afternoon modifying the feed chamber to take a 120 spool. (Leave the take-up 620, I do my own developing.)
Load a precious roll of B&W, go forth to take eight exposures walking the dog over a weeks time.
Carefully develop in HC110, and........film badly fogged from pinholes that one minute in the darkroom with a small flashlight would have revealed.
Not only have I wasted a week but trashed a $7 roll of film.
Dumb, dumb, dumb!
 
shawn said:
... And then at the 45 minute mark realize you are an idiot because you are developing a roll of 120 and made a basic error above.....
Shawn (banging head against the wall)......
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Did this once two years ago. At about the one minute mark, I realized my mistake, and turned the tank on its side and rolled it across the table so all of the film would be exposed to developer. It worked, kind of. One half of the image was properly developed, the other half was about 75% there. Nothing important on the roll, so nothing important was lost. But a valuable lesson learned, that's for sure.

Jim B.
 
zuiko85 said:
I hate it when;
Am gifted a Kodak Tourist with a low spec but perfectly clean 100mm f8.8 triplet with a functional shutter. The bellows ‘looks’ good.
Spend an afternoon modifying the feed chamber to take a 120 spool. (Leave the take-up 620, I do my own developing.)
Load a precious roll of B&W, go forth to take eight exposures walking the dog over a weeks time.
Carefully develop in HC110, and........film badly fogged from pinholes that one minute in the darkroom with a small flashlight would have revealed.
Not only have I wasted a week but trashed a $7 roll of film.
Dumb, dumb, dumb!
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That is a bummer. 5ish years ago I picked up a number of Tourists with the higher spec lenses for little money. Not one of them had a functional bellows. Did the same with Monitors and had one good and the rest were all a mess. Which is a shame as the Monitors are nice cameras. My good one has the Astigmat Special on it and is an earlier model that can handle clipped 120 rolls directly.


On the plus side I'm using the shutter/lens and viewfinder of the Monitor Six-16 to make another 6x12 panoramic camera so at least I'm getting some use out of it. Might try reusing some of the Tourists for some type of camera too.

Shawn
 
Mackinaw said:
Did this once two years ago. At about the one minute mark, I realized my mistake, and turned the tank on its side and rolled it across the table so all of the film would be exposed to developer. It worked, kind of. One half of the image was properly developed, the other half was about 75% there. Nothing important on the roll, so nothing important was lost. But a valuable lesson learned, that's for sure.
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For a brief couple of seconds I considered this but as I was already 3/4 of the way through my time I figured I should just let it go so I could see how the Foma worked stand developed. Still need to scan it but the negatives look good.

Shawn
 
In two decades of doing this, I am lucky I've never made such a mistake, or swapped dev/fix. But I came very close last night—popped in a few rolls of Foma 100 to soup in Rodinal and went looking for a new syringe. Measured everything out and was about to pour in until I realized I'd sucked up DD-X; I keep both in old olive oil bottles. Probably wouldn't have given me much.

To be fair, it was 1:30 in the morning. I do my best developing in the wee hours.
 
zuiko85 said:
I hate it when;
Am gifted a Kodak Tourist with a low spec but perfectly clean 100mm f8.8 triplet with a functional shutter. The bellows ‘looks’ good.
Spend an afternoon modifying the feed chamber to take a 120 spool. (Leave the take-up 620, I do my own developing.)
Load a precious roll of B&W, go forth to take eight exposures walking the dog over a weeks time.
Carefully develop in HC110, and........film badly fogged from pinholes that one minute in the darkroom with a small flashlight would have revealed.
Not only have I wasted a week but trashed a $7 roll of film.
Dumb, dumb, dumb!
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The first off-ebay 8x10 (seemed too good a price) I bought arrived poorly packed so I had to make an 8x10 ground glass to replace the one that came with it. Then I checked the bellows. It seemed every constellation in the known universe was represented.

I have always been interested in astronomy.
 
You should have turned the tank upside down, you could have gotten lucky! Lol.

For every mistake in the darkroom there are two kinds of people, those that have made the mistake and those that are about to....
 
Almost developed some B&W film with half the amount of concentrate needed...I noticed it looked a bit weak in color and re-did my math...
I don't get my Fixer ready until I need it...
 
I loaded a 2 reel tank a few years back and forgot about it. 99% certain it was TMAX 400 shot at 400 - BUT didn't label it - turns out my memory was fuzzy, and it was TMZ 3200, and the developing time was half what it was supposed to be - super thin negatives
 
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