Help! Fomapan 100 overexposed at 400!

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I must've been very foolish when I changed the roll of film.... why oh why! I've ran an entire roll of fomapan 100 thinking it was fomapan 400.. How can I save my film while developing it ?

I develop my fomapan films in Ilfotec LC-29 1+19 @ 20°C, souping them for 7 minutes, same timing for fomapan 100 & fomapan 400... now if I want to have my fomapan 100 rated at 400, should I lengthen the process? I guess yes... I'll be checking around for clues, but I don't know if on the FOMA website they've thought of dumb folks like me who forget the change the iso rating...

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For sure you will have to increase development time, otherwise you will undoubtedly have film that is 2 stops under-exposed - very thin and difficult to print!

Just a guess, but if it were me, I'd double the processing time to 14 minutes, and slightly reduce the agitation. (Warning: I am not familiar with fomapan film.)
 
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@Whisper : you did without changing development times ? I read on the massive dev chart that I should multiply dev time by 2.25 (2 stop push, normal developer).. that'd be about 15 minutes 45 seconds. I'll keep reading a bit more before trying my luck. I've got several shots taken with a 1951 J-3 that I'm eager to see... :)
 
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Oh thank you Frank! I generally agitate continuously the 1st minute then 5-10 seconds every minute. Maybe I should agitate every 2 or 3 minutes ? :) One learns from his errors it seems... so maybe tonight I'll have learned something!
 
Found more on the Fomapan 100 technical sheet :

"FOMAPAN 100 Classic has a nominal speed rating of ISO 100/21o, but
due to its wide exposure latitude the film gives good results even when overexposed by 1 EV (exposure value) (as ISO 50/18o) or underexposed by 2 EV (as ISO 400/27o) without any change in processing, i.e. without lengthening the development time or increasing the temperature of the developer used."

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develop for 14 minutes or do as they say ? common sense would indicate to lengthen the time. I might do this!
 
I think you mean you underexposed it because if the camera thought it was 400 film then you shot at 2 stops too slow shutter speed and/or too closed down in aperture for the film at 100, no? If a scene should be shot at 1/125 at f/8 for 100 speed film but your camera is set for 400 the camera would shoot it at 1/500 at f/8 which would be underexposed on 100 speed film.

You should be fine with some light adjustment, I'd add 20-30% to the development time for 100.
 
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Max
If the photos were taken in contrasty situation then the highlights may blow out before you can get any shadow detail, as pushing the dev to get detail in the shadows will have the same effect on the highlights.
A compensation dev two bath or water bath, may help but it does not really work for me, Rodinal 1:100 for 60% of recommended time pour out an leave to stand in water at same temp for recommended time, without any agitation.
some one will have better technique I'm sure...
Noel
 
@Richard : ah you're right, I misunderstood, somehow for me higher sensivity on the camera settings meant higher exposition while you're correct, it's underexposing (less light reaches the film, if i get it well) .. I haven't done anything yet... @30% extra time, following your advice would be to go for 9 mins. Thanks, i take note of it :) I guess it varies according to the film & developer. FrankS recommends 14 minutes, and if I follow roughly the massive devchart the rule would be to go for 15min 45secs.

@Noel : That'll be hard to say, I think I have photos taken in very dim environments and photos taken in bright sunny scenes. Unfortunately I don't use Rodinal ... but so many of RFFers do, I wonder what are its particularities. I must try it some day. Not to talk about "caffenol" !!
 
From that thread: "it's the left image that's Ultra 100 shot at EI 400 and processed at +50% over normal"

Sounds like about 12 minutes then, and still reduce agitation so as not to blow out the highlights before building shadow density.
 
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Thank you for the thread, Whisper, it's nice to see some "live" results! I might go for 12 minutes, as Frank suggests. It sounds like a very nice compromise. I'll wait a few more minutes and then I'll be off to the darkroom, I think my LC29 1+19 isn't yet at the good temperature:)
 
Max

LC29 will dilute to 1:29 (times should be on bottle) it it the dilutation and the reduced agitation that pulls the shadows up without frying the high lights to a cinder. The PA Rodinal ia a Rodinal analogue.

The water bath I use has a greater tendancy to pull the high lights except It never works too well for me, sorry.

Noel
 
Thanks Noel, I will take a good note of this in the future. Right now the tank is besides me and i'm agitating less than usual. I'm curious to see how it'll end up. :)
 
Maybe I should as well. Though I never get in contact with the diluted solution, not to say about the concentrated LC29 itself.
 
see this:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28788&highlight=fomapan

and this:
shot in prague

man-mit-pfeife.jpg
 
The negative looks quite contrasty, I am trying to scan now. My scanner will ruin most of it as usual...

EDIT : Adobe Lightroom seems to bring the life out of them so far... my old scanner tends to make photos appear darker than they are on the neg (and blurrier than they are on the neg)... i checked the neg with a loupe and the sharpness appears perfect.
 
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