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.
D-76
Tank #1 - Single-reel tank, partial roll
D-76 1:1, 11 minutes total
Agitate 30 sec, then 5 sec every 30 sec thereafter
This is my "control" tank, just to check how D76 does with this film/camera combo
Density looks good
Rodinal
Tank #2 - Double-reel tank, partial roll
Rodinal 1:100, 60 minutes total
5 minute presoak in water
Agitate 4 times per minute first 3 minutes, then one inversion at the 30 minute mark
Density looks much better than it did the other day! Hooray!
Pyrocat-HD
Tank #3 - Double-reel tank, partial roll
Pyrocat-HD 1:1:200, 60 minutes total
5 minute presoak in water
Agitate 4 times per minute first 3 minutes, then one inversion at the 30 minute mark
What the?!? What happened here? There's hardly any frame number, but the "tongue test" shows good density. It gets even weirder...here's a section of several frames:
Pyrocat-HD frames
There's that one dark frame in there. But look closely..the clouds aren't darker. So it's only a part of the frame that got a lot of density. Weird. Must go back and ask folks about this.
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