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Hi,
Before I start, thanks in advance for the time folks are taking reading and responding to my many questions
A nice extra bit of learning (from the LF course I have been posting about in another thread) has been my processing 2 x sheets of my own stock, 5x4, 2018-dated HP5. A full box bought with camera.
I can see on the negs that the rebate is an even, very light gray rather than the totally clear rebate the other students achieved.
The tutor, Mathew said it was probably "base layer fogging" caused by the film being so old. I haven't been able to refrigerate - just kept in a cool inside the house, under stairs type area, stable ambient temperatures.
He further said that fogging while loading was possible, it was less likely as the rebate fogging was so even. Also he said suggested that the whole pack was likely to produce lower contrast images, and that I might change dev choice and/or agitation method to compensate.
I wasn't able to use my negatives in the scanner because of time constraints (would have needed to scan all of sheet, to show the rebate, without the Epson 850 negative carrier everyone else was using so I can't immediately show the results here...
I have some 35 mm FP4 also to process I was thinking of continuing with a purchase of Euro HD (ID111) from Nic + Trick and modifying the dilution and/or agitation to increase contrast - any thoughts?
Robert
Before I start, thanks in advance for the time folks are taking reading and responding to my many questions
A nice extra bit of learning (from the LF course I have been posting about in another thread) has been my processing 2 x sheets of my own stock, 5x4, 2018-dated HP5. A full box bought with camera.
I can see on the negs that the rebate is an even, very light gray rather than the totally clear rebate the other students achieved.
The tutor, Mathew said it was probably "base layer fogging" caused by the film being so old. I haven't been able to refrigerate - just kept in a cool inside the house, under stairs type area, stable ambient temperatures.
He further said that fogging while loading was possible, it was less likely as the rebate fogging was so even. Also he said suggested that the whole pack was likely to produce lower contrast images, and that I might change dev choice and/or agitation method to compensate.
I wasn't able to use my negatives in the scanner because of time constraints (would have needed to scan all of sheet, to show the rebate, without the Epson 850 negative carrier everyone else was using so I can't immediately show the results here...
I have some 35 mm FP4 also to process I was thinking of continuing with a purchase of Euro HD (ID111) from Nic + Trick and modifying the dilution and/or agitation to increase contrast - any thoughts?
Robert
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