Help Needed: Back into processing // Stand Developing

[taffy]

Hi, it was my first time to process rolls of film in a very very long time. I tried stand developing for the very first time and the results are not too good. Here is an image of the negative.

Developer: PaRodinal 1:100
Fixer: Ilfosol 3 1:14
Temp: might have been 2 degrees below 20c so 18
Time: 70 mins; 4 inversions at the beginning, 4 inversions at 00:35:00.

Seems like there's a lot of silver left on the film. Could you kindly point out what happened here and how I can avoid this in the future? Should I go back to the "normal way" of developing?

Thanks!

Taffy

 

[taffy]

Additionally:

This is expired Neopan 400 Professional.

 

[Freakscene]

expired

Neopan 400 was never very good with Rodinal and stand development with a highly alkaline, high activity developer with old film is likely to end like this.

Give some fresh film a try, and for expired film use HC-110.

Marty

 

[taffy]

Neopan 400 was never very good with Rodinal and stand development with a highly alkaline, high activity developer with old film is likely to end like this.

Give some fresh film a try, and for expired film use HC-110.

Marty

Thanks, Marty. This is really embarrassing, I just realized as I checked on my chemicals, that I did NOT use fixer. I used the Ilford developer not the fixer-- so I used a developer, a stop bath, and a developer again!

Sheesh!

 

[Ronald M]

You can "refix". Use a tray if already cut.

 

[taffy]

You can "refix". Use a tray if already cut.

That's what I did 🙂 thanks Ronald!

 

[Freakscene]

Thanks, Marty. This is really embarrassing, I just realized as I checked on my chemicals, that I did NOT use fixer. I used the Ilford developer not the fixer-- so I used a developer, a stop bath, and a developer again!
Sheesh!

Well, that explains it!

Marty