• 1464K: Grain silos along Highway 55, Minneapolis. (17 August 2024. Film Washi Z @ EI 400 in Pentax K-1000.) (on top.)
  • 1463: Grain silos along Highway 55, Minneapolis. (17 August 2024. Film Ferrania P30 @ EI 80 in Minolta XE-7?.)
  • 1461: Minneapolis Institute of Art. (JCH StreetPan @ EI 1600 in Minolta XE-7.)
  • 1459K: Two Harbors Lighthouse / Gooseberry Falls State Park. (Rollei RPX 400 @ EI 400 in Pentax K-1000.) (on bottom.)

Rolls whose ID ends with K were shot by my friend Kate, who visited this summer. I’m quite late in getting these developed and scanned for her.

Loaded into 1.15L tank inside daylight changing bag. Pre-wet film for ~6 minutes. During the pre-soak mixed 11mL HC-110 concentrate into distilled water to ~800 mL. Emptied out pre-wetting water and poured developer into the tank. 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 12 rolls fixed in this batch of fixer.) Reclaimed fixer and rinsed for ten minutes in 72 degree 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 1461

Shoulda learned from previous rolls: you cannot push JCH Street Pan two stops, regardless of what the sales verbiage says. At least, not by stand-developing it (and HC-110 doesn’t do any better at that than Rodinal). These are dark and muddy: maybe they’d be useful as evidence in a trial, but they’re not artistically usable. The emulsion sure does scratch easily, too.

There’s nothing usable here.

Roll 1463

Fun roll to shoot and develop. Once again, Ferrania P30 looks great stand-developed in HC-110, and the dark, broody, filmic vibe really pays off for these grain silos, dilapidated factories, and half-abandoned segments of southeast Minneapolis along Hiawatha Avenue. It doesn’t have as much dynamic range as I tend to think it does (e.g., shadows on 03 are impenetrable), but that’s part of what gives it its overall vibe, and that same solidity in the shadows works quite well on other frames (e.g., 05 is a more-successful shot similar to 03, but where the shadows work better with the rest of the composition). The film also really shows off the odd murals on the sides of the grain silos and graffiti on the sides of buildings, rendering it into B/W quite effectively while keeping the lines crisp (e.g., 07, 10, 11). It’s good for landscapes, too, doing a good job of capturing a wide dynamic range as long as the shadows aren’t too dark; this makes deep shots like 12 work well. Brickwork and metal on the sides of buildings at the north end of the segment are rich, deeply textured, and gorgeous.