A couple of weeks ago, I was merrily developing some film. Had big plans for doing a dozen rolls or something, and everything was going great. So great, I hardly even had to concentrate on it!

In goes the film. In goes the developer. Agitate, wait, agitate, wait. Down the drain with the developer (I use one-shot). Rinse the film. In goes the fixer. Agitate, wait, agitate, wait. Down the drain with the fixer...wait, what?

Yup, I dumped out my film fixer that had about 20 more rolls of fixing goodness left in it. To top that off, it was the last of my fixer! Read more