• 1396: Lake Michigan pier and lighthouse / James Tellen Woodland Sculpture Garden. (12 August 2023. Orwo DN21 @ EI 13? notes on phone say EI 8 but also that this is Orwo DP31, which it clearly is not. Nevertheless, it’s possible the film ID was written down wrong and then inspired use of the wrong film speed based on that first incorrect bit of data.)

One more roll, last of the night. This reduces my backlog of exposed rolls to just eight!

Loaded inside daylight changing bag. Pre-wet film for ~150 minutes. During the pre-soak mixed ~16mL HC-110 concentrate into distilled water to ~400 mL. Emptied out pre-wetting water and poured developer in to the 500mL tank and topped off the tank with distilled water. 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 eight and a half minutes. All agitations are half-agitations, gently (i.e., gently twisting to a 90-degree angle, then gently back).

After 8.5 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 28 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

Another roll of oddball Orwo film that’s been exposed and developed with limited success. This has light-piping problems, and I suspect that the long pre-soak may have caused the emulsion to flake off on some places. There are plenty of shots, too, where the exposure falls both below and above the dynamic range of the film. And there’s a line across multiple negatives at a consistent place in the roll that makes it look like the negatives were scratched by the cassette.

All in all, disappointing to get so little out that’s usable of this roll.