Hello, dear hive people.
Here I'm again with my Analog photography and another film developing process that as usual, I managed to finish at home in my small kitchen.
Originally this post intended for the Analog (FILM) Photog community dedicated to the old school photography process and accepting new taken and developed images taken with the Analog and Instant cameras and the old (historical) taken some long or short time ago and scanned now images as well. "Believe in film" and "film is not dead" are the very popular tags on Twitter and the Film photographer's community is huge there, but here it's very-very-very thin and is growing slowly. I created it around two months ago and we have only 49 members include me and the community creator profile. From these 49 members around 10 are very active. Others are only visitors and mostly are silently voting on the daily posts.
I developed this ilford Delta 100 expired in 2006 roll of the film yesterday. I photographed it with this looks like new but actually 24 years old Fujifilm GA645 medium format camera. I decided to expose this roll as ISO 400 instead of 100 with the goal to push it and to make it available for low-light situations as well. For the chemicals, I choose Rodinal developer - one of the most classic and old developers available in the market and possessing a positive feature - when it already opened - it can be stored for years plus this developer is very economical due to the compressed liquid that can be diluted 1:100 or 1:50 with water.
I store the bottle of Rodinal in the dark place covered with foil as you can see in the picture above. Here some of the images I took during the mixing and diluting of my chemicals I needed yesterday.
I decided to use 50:1 dilution - it means only 11 ML of the Rodinal liquid and 550 ML of water. 20C is a temperature I used for all the repaired parts - the developer, the fixer, and the water I needed for presoaking and for the stop as well.
And finally, the developed after 20 minutes of developing process, and 5 minutes of fixing process black and white film.
I got very nice in terms of contrasts and sharpness results. I don't like the white snow that exists in the grays of the images with the sky. I can't touch the real reason for this effect. Possibly this roll was stored in the bad condition, not in the fridge but also many times heated up during long storage. Next time I will try another process and possibly other chemicals for the next roll from the same stock that I have in my fridge.
Also will avoid pushing, but will exposure it at the box speed. Sure, will write another post with the results and possibly with another image from my homemade film developing process.
Some results from this roll :
Here we go. I just created this Analog (FILM) Photog. I'm still learning the community managing process, so please be patient. And we also need your help - so don't hesitate to join even if you don't use any analog camera. Sure you will find some special stuff photographed by amazing photographers with their Film cameras.
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