The Zorki 4 and the 30 year old Leicanol

[Valkir1987]

After not completely finishing a roll of Fuji neopan 400 I decided to develop the roll myself. The only developer left was a small box of powdered Leicanol, the manual did not show developing times for Fuji so I decided to take 9 minutes developing time.
After 9 minutes of developing, cleaning the tank, and Fixing, the film came out developped well, no hard or to soft frames. I should have spent more time on the fixation, the emulsion was quite thick on some places. And I should have waited longer for the film to dry. But the results where fine, I hoped for a finer grain and sharpness. Here are some pictures 🙂

 

[payasam]

Contrast perhaps a little low: but that need not be a consequence of development.

 

[roland]

Can I just say that the second photo is wonderful (and i don't normally go for cat pictures).

 

[Valkir1987]

The first picture was taken with the old Silver Jupiter 8, (the one with the focussing knob) and the cat picture is taken with the Jupiter 9.
I tried to set the aperture number at infinity at the dept of field scale according the choosen aperture in the first picture. But the trick does not always work.
The picture is uploaded now is taken with the J-8 as well, although the composition is not the best.