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Fixing doesn't darken negative film, developing does that. Fixing for longer will not make thin negatives darker. The developer turns the exposed light-sensitive compound into something dark. … No amount of developing is going to bring it back. And certainly more fixing won't do anything useful. …

Your negatives are fine. The film seems to be capturing exactly what it is supposed to. One advantage of negative film over a digital sensor is the softer saturation characteristic. With a digital …

The stop bath has two purposes, to immeditely cease the developing process, and to protect the fixer. The developer is alkaline and the fixer acid. …

Keep in mind that positive paper will be all black after developing when not exposed at all. If you are getting black very quickly, then you need to increase exposure. …

This small error in concentration is overshadowed by other sources of error: Your ability to measure the temperature and then chose the correct developing time. … If you're worried about this, add 5% or so to the developing time. You'd have a hard time measuring the effect of that even with carefully calibrated equipment. …

Better than some on line reference is to stop and actually think about it. Think about how a film camera works to expose frames, but otherwise keep the film in the dark. Different problems show up i …

Also, C-41 is more complicated than a single developing phase, and temperature needs to be well controlled. … Once you know you are exposing the film correctly, now you can try different developing techniques if that's really your purpose. …

If a negative is pale and hard to see, then it means that not enough light reached the film. Basically, the pictures were grossly underexposed. Unfortunately, with film you don't get any feedback un …

I don't think there is anything particularly special going on. It doesn't take multiple captures and HDR to explain the pictures you show. You do need decent sensor dynamic range, but not excessivel …

Pushing film with special developing isn't free. It usually makes the grain worse and reduces contrast. You don't want to do it more than necessary. … Developing to 1200 after exposing at 800 will give the the drawbacks of pushing the extra 0.6 f-stops without the benefits. …

One big one you can do digitally that was very hard to do with film is color correction at more than one place along the dark/light range. Unless you were doing very complicated, time consuming, and …