• 1411: I-25 in Colorado (from Frisco to Eisenhower Tunnel) / Roof Depot Building and environs (Minneapolis). (26 Sept 2023–21 Jan 2024. Eastman Double-X 5222 [as FPP Double-X] @ EI 320 in Pentax K-1000.) (On top.)
  • 1409: I-25, Utah and Colorado. (26 Sept 2023. Rollei Ortho Plus 25 @ EI 25 in Pentax K-1000.) (On bottom.)

Two more rolls semi-standing in HC-110. Tonight I’m finishing catching up on my film developing backlog!

Loaded inside daylight changing bag. Pre-wet film for ~25 minutes. During the pre-soak mixed ~6mL HC-110 concentrate into distilled water to ~400 mL. Emptied out pre-wetting water and poured developer in to a 500mL tank and topped off the tank with distilled water. Agitated 40x over the first sixty seconds or so, knocked on the tank several times to dislodge bubbles, and then agitated 5x at 20:00 and 40:00. All agitations are all half-agitations, gently (i.e., gently twisting to a 90-degree angle, then gently back).

After 60 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 41 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 1409

Another roll of Rollei Ortho, another set of badly overexposed photos … or photos that need to be developed differently, I guess. Anyway, the roll is mostly a loss: everything is blown out. There are shots where a usable image can be reconstructed, but that requires so much contrast enhancement that it reveals underlying irregularities in the scanner hardware that are normally invisible. Too bad: there’s some rather pretty landscape shots in here, for a roll shot entirely from a moving car.

Writing this one off, alas.

Roll 1411

This roll was loaded into the Pentax after passing through Eisenhower Tunnel, and six or so frames were shot coming down toward Denver late in the afternoon. Then they sat in the camera until 25 October, when I took the Pentax to the Turf Club for the Electric Six concert and went to load a roll of high-speed film into it, forgetting about the roll of FPP Double-X already in the camera. Those six or so shots are of course now lightstruck, and I rewinded the film into the cassette so I could load some Ilford Delta 3200 into the camera. Later on, though, I put the cassette into the daylight changing bag and loaded the spool onto a bulk cassette, and re-loaded the film into the Pentax in January to shoot up the remainder of the unexposed roll.

And that came out quite nicely. There’s nice, bright, crisp shots of this rather depressing industrial building: it’s an interesting contrast. There are a lot of interesting compositions here, too: nice use of diagonal lines and parallelism, if I may say so. Converging lines, too.

Glad I salvaged something from this roll.

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