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35mm development issues: Only half of film developed correctly
This is due to the film being only half covered with developer and fixer. What you're seeing as "fogged" is the side that was toward the top of the tank, and far from fog, it's undeveloped ...
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Cannot get true blacks with my enlarger
Three things to check in this situation.
Are your prints fully developed (that is, are you developing by time rather than snatching the print when it looks right under the safelight)? Adox seems to ...
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How to safely tell if a film roll has been developed?
Kodak Plus-X film is a “panchromatic” black-and-white negative film. The prefix “pan-” is Greek, meaning “all”. “Panchromatic” film translates as “sensitive to all colors”—no safelight to be used. Two ...
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What is the minimum time required for final wash in film development?
Washing photo materials to remove the processing chemicals has been well studied. Both photo film and photo papers are based on a binder consisting of gelatin. In other words, dispersed in gelatin is ...
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How to store film before processing?
Here is a quote from the Kodak publication 'Storage and Care of KODAK Photographic Materials':
Once you have exposed your film, paper, or material, it is important
to minimize changes in the ...
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Will the temperature of stop-bath and fixer during development affect the final result?
The rule of thumb is to keep all processing temperatures as close as possible to each other including the water rinses.
The problem that arises with temperature fluctuation is the stress it puts on ...
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What's the suggested method for developing TriX400 @ISO 200 with Rodinal?
The rational part of me says that you should go with tfb's answer.
But my own laziness has led me to do a lot of stand-dev. If you'd like to experiment, put 5mL of Rodinal in per roll of film at 1:...
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What's the suggested method for developing TriX400 @ISO 200 with Rodinal?
I'll point out that Rodinal is a speed-reducing developer. You'll likely lose between 1/2 and 1 stop of speed when using it so Tri-X at 200 is probably about right.
Pushing anything in Rodinal is a ...
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Rule of thumb to choose right mix of Rodinal developer?
The general idea with developing film is that one has supplied enough light to the film for a nominal exposure, and in order to take the next step, a chemical reaction must occur to bring out that ...
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What is the minimum time required for final wash in film development?
The absolute minimum time is 0 to get a usable image. The process, however, is incomplete and the residual chemicals in the emulsion will degrade the image over time. The longer you wash (the more ...
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What do 'glowing' and 'flat' describe in black and white photographs?
In the development of B&W film rolls, people often talk about their result being flat or glowing.
I would urge you to take this with a grain of salt, as no one staring at a print is thinking of ...
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What can cause extremly low density negatives?
It was also left in the camera for some time
This is likely the problem, depending on how long you mean by "some time". Ilford Pan-F has an exceptionally low latent image stability. That is,...
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Will hardener help prevent emulsion wash-off during development, 35mm B&W (ADOX CHS 25)
If the emulsion were to “wash off”, you would see definite changes to the thickness and likely the termination line would show some folding of the emulsion. Because the leader is black meaning it ...
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Why did my night pictures turned out so foggy, light or too bright?
It looks like your example was severely underexposed. When the negative was scanned or a print was made from the negative there was an attempt to brighten the image to give you something more than a ...
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What happened if I put stop bath ahead of developer
Developers work in an alkaline solution. There are exceptions, but they these are uncommon. The chemical goodies that the developer works on are held in place on the film and/or paper by a binder of ...
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How to store film before processing?
Latent image shifting is not much of a problem provided we are not talking about several months. After exposure, rapid latent image shifting occurs in the first 48 hours and continues at a reduced ...
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What do 'glowing' and 'flat' describe in black and white photographs?
Flat and glow are examples of descriptive words that may have different meanings to different people.
Flat often refers to lack of dimensionality. It may also refer to reduced contrast.
Glow often ...
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What do 'glowing' and 'flat' describe in black and white photographs?
These are words used in the jargon of photography. Black & White images can display a myriad of tones packed between a pure white and a pure black. Such an image zip, in other words, glowing. ...
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Why is this photograph shot with Delta 400 and developed with D76 1+1 so grainy
If I had to guess, I would say that this image was underexposed and then corrected for (perhaps unwittingly) when scanning.
Two reasons for this guess:
You mention you metered using the camera's ...
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Will the temperature of stop-bath and fixer during development affect the final result?
All fluid baths should be close to the same temperature including water rinse, wash water, and washing aids. Film has multiple coats of material both front and back. Each layer, (there can be a dozen ...
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Why are my self-developed photos dark, grainy and noisy?
That's a look I associate with underexposed negatives, when the scanning software has attempted to compensate. If you manually lower the brightness at the scanning stage, you can generally get rid of ...
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Cannot get true blacks with my enlarger
What bulb does your enlarger use? It might be a little dim for the enlargement you're after. The quantity of light decreases to the square, after all. I recommend using test strips to determine the ...
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Why do development times for C-41 films with different speeds remain the same?
Colour processes, such as C41, are standardised. That means that no matter the stock, development specifications stay identical.
This is also the case for slide film development (currently E6), and ...
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What can cause extremly low density negatives?
It’s often difficult to determine why film comes back from the lab with low density.
That being said, most likely is under exposure due a camera setting error.
Common lab errors: Under developing via ...
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What caused these large white spots on my developed negatives?
These spots seem like typical dust spots. I encounter them regularly and are usually quite easy to remove in Lightroom or Photoshop. In the darkroom, it is more of a hassle. After meticulous dust ...
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