Two more rolls, with standard agitation schedule, while rolls 1371, 1393, 1397, and 1402 are stand-developing. Both are film types I’ve not had good luck stand-developing. I’m extending the development time to twelve minutes here because I’m not certain of the exposure, and because the chemicals have been sitting in the cold cold basement and I am not 100% certain the rolls started at 68 degrees, even though they’d been sitting in a water bath in the sink. All in all, I’d rather overdevelop these slightly than underdevelop them.

Loaded inside daylight changing bag. Pre-wet film for ~30 minutes. During the pre-soak mixed 24mL Rodinal into distilled water to ~600 mL. (This is because I looked at the remaining amount of distilled water in the jug and said “surely that’s less than half a liter,” and dumped it in. I was wrong. Rather than throwing out everything in the beaker, I just added a bit more Rodinal to make the desired dilution, poured in enough distilled water to take the mixture to 600 mL exactly, and poured out the unused developer once the tank was full, because that was less wasteful overall. That’ll teach me to say “surely that’s less than half a liter.”) Another problem with these rolls: I did not know the row numbers when I was developing them, because I had written ID numbers on the metal canisters and then kept the canisters with the film tank … until the cats decided to treat the canister metal with the ID numbers as toys. (So although it’s now clear, by process of elimination, which rolls these are, it’s no longer clear which was on top in the tank.) Bad luck at the start for these two.

Poured developer in to the two-roll tank and topped off the tank with tap water (to approx. 500mL). Agitated 20x over the first thirty seconds or so, knocked on the tank several times to dislodge bubbles, and then agitated 5x every 30 seconds to a total development time of twelve minutes. All agitations are all half-agitations, gently (i.e., gently twisting to a 90-degree angle, then gently back).

After 12 minutes, disposed of developer, rinsed in 70 degree water. Fixed in fixer 1+4 for 6 minutes, inverting 10x over 15 seconds at the top of every minute. (That’s now 6 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 distilled water and agitated 20x, and hung negatives vertically to dry.

Evaluation and notes

Roll 1376

Gotta say, comparing this roll to 1375 really leads me to think I prefer Delta 3200 in Rodinal 1+25 to TMax P3200 in HC-110 1+31. Grain is much more restrained and the response curve is much smoother.

Other than that, the basic notes about roll 1375 apply: fun show, visually interesting band.

Roll 1387

My intent on getting this little point-and-shoot was that it would be easier to get a non-SLR into concerts. This turns out to be true, but this little Konica, general photo quality notwithstanding (see roll 1355), just doesn’t do well in concert lighting. Not having manual control over shutter speed is a deal-breaker here.

Nothing usable on this roll.