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

I'm getting back into the darkroom after a bit of an absence. Breaking out all the chemicals, I wasn't sure what to expect from year-old developers.

First up was Lauder Chemicals Formula 76, basically D-76 with a not-so-original name. Devved a roll of film, fixed, washed, take the roll out of the tank...completely blank! Even the frame numbers, gone. Stupid developer had completely died, and I'd fixed away everything. Oh well, out with the 76. Read more

Just mixed up my first batch of Photographer's Formulary 130 paper developer (aka: GAF 130, ansco 130). Nobody told me the glycin foams up when you add it...a tiny bit alarming, but the mad scientist in me loved it. What's mixing chemicals without some foaming, bubbling, or color changing?

Tomorrow I hope to finally get a break from cleaning the place to do some printing.

I asked around about my negative issue (see the previous post), and got some good pointers at APUG. I tried them out and here's what happened. Oh, and each image here also includes a little bit of fully-exposed film tongue to check density with. Read more

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p>So I finally developed my first negatives since high school, some 18 years ago. I have three different developers: pyrocat-HD, rodinal (or at least Photographer's Formulary paraminophenol), and some D-76 (well, close...Lauder Chemical formula 76). Wanting to run before I could crawl, I'd decided to do some stand development with the pyrocat and the rodinal.So I finally developed my first negatives since high school, some 18 years ago. Read more