• 1427: Freedy Johnson at the Parkway Theater. (3 March 2024. Hand-rolled Kentmere 400 @ EI 1600 in Minolta XE-7.) (completely lightstruck. unknown location in tank.)
  • 1428: Freedy Johnson at the Parkway Theater. (3 March 2024. Hand-rolled Kentmere 400 @ EI 1600 in Minolta XE-7.) (unknown location in tank.)
  • 1429: Freedy Johnson at the Parkway Theater. (3 March 2024. Hand-rolled Kentmere 400 @ EI 1600 in Minolta XE-7.) (unknown location in tank.)

Roll 1427 was known to be lightstruck: the tape used to secure the film strip to the spool broke inside the camera, and I had to yank it out by opening the back of the camera I tried to minimize light exposure, but of course, even in a dark theater, there was way too much light. Tossed it into the tank with the other two rolls anyway, because hey, why not, but didn’t expect anything. Which is what I got.

Loaded into the 1.15L tank inside daylight changing bag. Pre-wet film for ~20 minutes. During the pre-soak, mixed 21mL Rodinal (5mL/roll, plus 1mL/roll/stop pushed) in ~900mL distilled water. Poured developer in and topped off with distilled water. Agitated 40x over the first minute, then one more at 60:00. All agitations are half-agitations, gently (i.e., gently twisting to a 90-degree inversion, then gently back).

After two hours, disposed of developer, rinsed in ~70 degree tap water. Fixed in Arista fixer 1+4 for 6 minutes (that’s now 5 rolls from this batch of fixer), inverting 10x over 15 seconds at the top of every minute. 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

1427 is in fact totally ruined.

The other two rolls are overdeveloped too, but not as much as rolls 1425 and 1426: it really does seem like pushing was unnecessary here because stand development would have worked out well enough. There are some nice crisp shots of the musicians here—1428-06 to -08; -12, -14, -17, and -20; and many of the shots in the 20s from that roll—are particularly good. I got lucky on focus here, or maybe was just having a good night for it.

1429 also has some really nice shots of the opening acts. This makes me think that 1426 and 1429 were swapped and mislabeled in developing, but files with the existing numbering have propagated out enough by this point that I’m disinclined to track them all down and correct the error.