I wanna soup my own!

[CuS]

Victory (tentative)

Victory (tentative)

My workflow

1. Load the film into the spirals in a dark room/closet/changing bag
That is the most difficult of the steps to learn.
2. Prepare you chemicals and measure the temperature
2A (optional) Fill the tank with water, agitate and tap it with your palm or against the kitchen sounter to dislodge air bubbles. Let the water stand for a minute and dump
3. Pour in the developer - start stopwatch
Agitate the first 30 secs then a turn or 2 every minute
4. Development time is over
dump the developer
5. Fill with water rinse dump... water rinse dump
6. Pour in the fixer strat timer
agitate once per minute as you did with developer
7. Time is up, dump the fixer or return it to the bottle
8. Give a rinse with water
9. Fill with water, agitate 30 seconds, dump
10. Fill with water, agitate 30 seconds let stand 1 minute, agitate, dump
11. Fill with water, agitate 30 seconds let stand 2 minute, agitate, dump
12. Fill with water, agitate 30 seconds let stand 2 minute, agitate, dump
13. For last wash and to avoid water marks use a Photo-flo solution or 2 rinses in distilled water
14. hang to dry, use a weight at the bottom (clothes hanger with some duct-taped-metal works fine)
To make the environment dust free you can use the bathroom and run the shower for a minute or 2 to steam the room.
15. After an hour or 2 check that the neagtives are dry, then cut and put in archival pages

Well, I used your above method to develop a roll of Kodax Plus-X 125.

I used Rodinal 1:50 for 13 minutes, no stop bath (just rinse, as above), Kentmere rapid fixer, 4 mins and then rinse again (as above) with two drops of photoflo in last rinse (The 200 ml of photoflo that I have will last a lifetime ).

They are hanging to dry and they look good at first inspection.

I'll cut, sleeve and loupe inspect tomorrow and have some of the better shots printed and scanned.

I'll share the scans probably this weekend.

Thanks so much for all of your help - couldn't have done it without everyone's encouragement.

Cheers,

CuS

 

[ibcrewin]

Hey congrats and welcome to the club...

Quick question about developing in the kitchen. What's so bad about cleaning up the chems in food prep areas? I mean when you clean the kitchen you are generally using some sort of chemical spray be it clorox or some other cleaner.
I imagine that stuff might even be more toxic..

Just curious..

 

[visiondr]

Yeah, probably toxic. In the long run, wearing gloves is a probably a reasonable precaution if you develop a lot of film. Who really knows what that stuff could do after years in the darkroom? Besides, fixer has a pretty strong - and not terribly palatable - smell.