Film Dev Experiment on a lazy Sun afternoon.

[raytoei]

Film Dev Experiment on a lazy Sun afternoon.
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This Afternoon I wanted to develop 4 rolls of film together on my 5-Reel AP tank. The rolls are:
Kentmere 400 @ 400
Kentmere 400 @ 800
Kentmere 400 @ 1600
Fuji Superia 400 @ 400

The Developer I chose was the HC-110, this is an all-round developer, not developed for pushing at high speeds. To develop all the different films, I would choose a stand development, ie. dilute the solution to 1 part developer, 99 part water, and then leave it alone with little or no agitation. This method of development has issues of uneven development, but it is easy and somewhat predictable.

As a rule of thumb, i developed KM400 @ 800 at around 35-40mins @ 30C. So this time, i used a time of 45mins to develop this batch of film. The 400 iso film would be overexposed with high contrast, the 800 slight over-developed and the 1600 film would be, hopefully developed correctly.

I mixed aprox 1200ml of water with 12ml of HC-110 syrup. Today's water temp registered 29.5C. So I will develop it for 45mins.

It is now 15mins into the 45mins, I will do 5 agitation and then leave it to complete the 45mins development.

oh, one thing to note, the odd film out i the fuji Superia 400 film. This is a C-41 film to be processed by the photo labs. I am attempting to develop this color film with Black and White Chemicals. * gulp *

(the four rolls to be developed, i usually write the camera,
exposure on the film leader, and I usually fold the leader to
remind myself that the film has been exposed)

* to be continued *

 

[raytoei]

Developing C-41 Fuji Superia 400 in HC-110.
(See previous post)
I am attaching some of the results.
My Observations:
* Base is really thick and it take a long time to scan (perhaps this is similar to all color films)
* The Histogram is very narrow, this I think means that details has been lost.
* The images has a loss of shadow details, ie. the dark patches are dark. Not sure if this means I should have developed it longer, or exposed it one stop brighter. ie. 200.
* Images aren't as sharp as pure B&W film.
* I encountered fogging on 2 -3 of the images, this were on images which were unexposed. Fogging is like a shrouded grey on some of the images.

On the positive side, the images looks interesting. Like something Junku would have done, ie, higher contrast, littel shadow details. (of coss, Junku does Neopan 1600 at 1600 )

Conclusion. cross processing of C41 with B&W chemicals is definitely not for the faint hearted. It works but there are quite a few gotchas. The look is interesting. (5 photos)