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Hi,
Well I finally processed my first B&W film at home on the 22nd (incidentally my Birthday as well!). I'd got the chemicals for Christmas but due to an oversight had left my exposed film in Nottingham at my uni address so I've had to wait until I got back home to do them.
Anyway, the film was Fomapan 200 and I deved it in Patterson Aculux 3 (1+9), the overall results are fairly good (even my dads somewhat old Canon Lide 80 flatbed from 2002 can't not show that!). I did have one slight problem though with loading the developing spiral, I finally got it onto the first part of the spiral in the changing bag and started racking it back and forth... and then it got stuck with about 35cm left to go!
After a while of trying to advance it, my dad had a go and we worked out that basically the film had kinked somewhat severely (I might not have got the first bit it on the spiral correctly). He ended up having to cut the offending kinked frame out so that we had two strips of film, he then loaded both onto the same reel one after the other (Despite him not having done any developing or used his equipment for about 25 years, he's not forgotten how to do any of it!). After that everything went smoothly and apart from some emulsion being missing in specs on a few of the last frames, everythings went quite well!
Anyway here are a few sample pictures (as I said above, the scanner is somewhat old: max of 2400 dpi optical! and quite cumbersome to use as you have to put the film adapter unit over each frame manually). Straight out of Vuescan settings with sharpening enabled. I'll get the whole lot scanned at Asda or Boots or somewhere shortly and post some better quality versions.
The camera was a Minolta Dynax 505si Super BTW, mainly with a 35 - 70mm f3.5 - 4.5 and an orange filter, some with a 28 - 80mm f3.5 - 5.6 and a yellow filter.
Well I finally processed my first B&W film at home on the 22nd (incidentally my Birthday as well!). I'd got the chemicals for Christmas but due to an oversight had left my exposed film in Nottingham at my uni address so I've had to wait until I got back home to do them.
Anyway, the film was Fomapan 200 and I deved it in Patterson Aculux 3 (1+9), the overall results are fairly good (even my dads somewhat old Canon Lide 80 flatbed from 2002 can't not show that!). I did have one slight problem though with loading the developing spiral, I finally got it onto the first part of the spiral in the changing bag and started racking it back and forth... and then it got stuck with about 35cm left to go!
After a while of trying to advance it, my dad had a go and we worked out that basically the film had kinked somewhat severely (I might not have got the first bit it on the spiral correctly). He ended up having to cut the offending kinked frame out so that we had two strips of film, he then loaded both onto the same reel one after the other (Despite him not having done any developing or used his equipment for about 25 years, he's not forgotten how to do any of it!). After that everything went smoothly and apart from some emulsion being missing in specs on a few of the last frames, everythings went quite well!
Anyway here are a few sample pictures (as I said above, the scanner is somewhat old: max of 2400 dpi optical! and quite cumbersome to use as you have to put the film adapter unit over each frame manually). Straight out of Vuescan settings with sharpening enabled. I'll get the whole lot scanned at Asda or Boots or somewhere shortly and post some better quality versions.
The camera was a Minolta Dynax 505si Super BTW, mainly with a 35 - 70mm f3.5 - 4.5 and an orange filter, some with a 28 - 80mm f3.5 - 5.6 and a yellow filter.
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