• 1084: Denver. San Francisco.
  • 1080: Denver.

Both TMax 100 exposed at EI 800 (originally to match developing time for two other rolls in Sprint Systems chemistry, though never mind that now). Each on 35mm roll in the 120 tank. As always, the lower-numbered roll is at the bottom of the canister.

Prewet in 68 degree water, ~20 minutes, while mixing up Caffenol C-L: 8g washing soda, 5g ascorbic acid powder, 5g iodized table salt, 20g Folgers instant coffee, in that order, dissolving each completely before adding the next. Shook mixing jar thoroughly after each addition to help ensure it was completely dissolved. Let sit 5 minutes. Poured out soaking water (pink!) and poured in Caffenol C-L (12:09 a.m., now Tuesday). Agitated 15x over first thirty seconds, then 5x every 15 minutes for semi-stand. The Massive Dev chart suggests 1⅔x developing time to push a TMax film 3 stops; stepping it down to 1.5x on the theory that Caffenol C-L is a compensating developer anyway. Though maybe I’ll wind up with underdeveloped negatives again. I guess I’ll see. Anyway, that results in a semi-stand development time of 105 minutes! That means it will be complete at 1:54 a.m.

Disposed of developer, rinsed repeatedly with water, rinsed repeatedly with water again, and then again, and then again, until water was perfectly clear, and had been for a while. Fixed in Ilford Rapid Fixer 1+3 (that now makes 16 rolls on this bottle of fixer, 6 since replenishment).

Really beautiful negatives on 1080: dense and lots of tonal gradations. There’s not going to be much trouble scanning here. Overdeveloped, though, and this is worse on 1084, which also has pretty bad water spotting.

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