• 1306: All Pints North / Jay Cooke State Park. (30–31 July 2022. Eastman Double-X @ EI 250 in K-1000.) (on top.)
  • 1332: South of the Twin Cities. (17?–25 Sept. 2022. Orwo DN21 (as Lomography Babylon Kino 13) @ EI 13 in K-1000.) (on bottom.)

Two more rolls, with standard agitation schedule. Both are film types I’ve not had good luck stand-developing.

Loaded inside daylight changing bag. Pre-wet film for ~30 minutes. During the pre-soak mixed 10 mL Rodinal into tap water to ~450 mL. Poured developer in to the two-roll tank and topped off the tank with tap water. Agitated 20x over the first thirty seconds or so, knocked on the tank several times to dislodge bubbles, and then agitated 5x at the top of each minute to a total development time of nine minutes. All agitations are all half-agitations, gently (i.e., gently twisting to a 90-degree angle, then gently back).

After 9 minutes, disposed of developer, rinsed in 70 degree water. Fixed in Ilford Rapid Fixer 1+4 for 6 minutes, inverting 10x over 15 seconds at the top of every minute. (That’s now 21 rolls fixed in this batch of fixer.) Reclaimed fixer and rinsed for ten minutes in tap water, then emptied tank, added a few drops of Photo-Flo, filled tank with tap water and agitated 20x, and hung negatives vertically to dry.

Evaluation and notes

Roll 1306

Exposure is better balanced than with stand development, but grain is more prominent, too. All in all, I like the look of the film in stand-developed Rodinal more, although I think I’d have to use a higher effective EI to avoid overexposure.

The real problem with the roll is that beer festivals are surprisingly hard to get interesting photos at: backgrounds are always crowded and busy, and there’s a surprisingly small range of things that people are doing and ways they’re behaving. When people are interesting at a beer festival, they genuinely are interesting, but they weren’t all that interesting here.

There are some nice shots (6, 9, 16, 17), but all in all, the roll is a disappointment.

Roll 1332

Another more or less complete loss of a roll: this is badly underdeveloped with very little contrast. Tonemapping multipass digital negatives helps some, but there are more or less no usable shots here. Too bad: there are some nice landscape compositions here that might have worked well if they weren’t underdeveloped.