Two more rolls with standard agitation schedule, last to be processed this evening.

Loaded inside daylight changing bag. Pre-wet film for ~120 minutes. During the pre-soak mixed 44.5mL Rodinal into distilled water to ~900 mL. Emptied out pre-wetting water and poured developer in to the 1.15L tank and topped off the tank with distilled water. Agitated 15x 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 nine minutes. All agitations are all half-agitations, gently (i.e., gently twisting to a 90-degree angle, then gently back).

After nine minutes, disposed of developer, rinsed 5x/10x/20x in 68-degree tap water. Fixed in fixer 1+4 for 6 minutes, inverting 10x over 15 seconds at the top of every minute. (That’s now 22 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 1370

Welp, another roll of Washi F so overexposed or overdeveloped that it doesn’t result in usable pictures. Sigh. I suspect it’s overdeveloped; the light meter’s working just fine in the camera.

Going to have to try another development procedure for this film type.

Roll 1413

Well, the standard caveats about shooting at a concert apply: it’s chaotics, under-lit, and dark (especially dark at the Turf Club). And, often, I was holding the camera over my head to shoot through the long telephoto lens, which makes composition difficult. Still, this band was fun to shoot, and there are some decent shots here, and I think that putting some effort into postprocessing will result in some usable pictures.

I’m starting to feel like I’d rather push HP5+ to 1600 or 3200 then shoot Ilford or Kodak high-speed film, in part bacause stand-development doesn’t work well with higher-speed films, and that would hold the grain down and help make exposure a little less critical in these low-late situations.