Loaded into the 1L tank inside daylight changing bag. Pre-soaked film for ~40 minutes. During the pre-soak, mixed 10mL Rodinal (5mL/roll) in distilled water to ~800 mL. Poured developer in. Agitated 40x over the first minute, then 5x more at 20:00 and 40:00. All agitations are half-agitations, gently (i.e., gently twisting to a 90-degree inversion, then gently back).

After 67:00 (oops! mistimed this relative to the other tank), disposed of developer, rinsed in ~72 degree tap water. Fixed for 6 minutes (that’s now 16 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 distilled water and agitated 20x, and hung negatives vertically to dry.

Evaluation and notes

Roll 1457

Overdeveloped—more so than is accounted for by the accidental addition of seven minutes to the timer on the stand development procedure. Stand developing just seems to increase the effective film speed of Double-X by at least a stop, maybe more. I need to either start doing time and temperature development for this film, or uprating it when I shoot it for stand development.

Nevertheless, there are some effective shots on this roll that came out nicely; overexposure is occasionally a good way to show the fogginess of the cool, humid summer day that the shots were taken on, e.g. in 01. (On the other hand, 02–05 are much much much too bright; via-HDR scanning makes some imagery recoverable but none of them meaningfully usable.) There’s some nicely usable, not-terribly-overexposed shots on the rest of the roll at Gooseberry Falls, too, especially 06, which is a well-composed impromptu portrait, and 07 through 08, which show off the bark textures on the trees quite well.

Not a fantastic roll, all in all, but it has its moments.

Roll 1460

Copex is hard to expose for, and a lot of these wind up being rather washed out, some irrecoverably (e.g., 05/15A–09/19A). But some of them (e.g., 00/10A–03/13A) are recoverable with good scanning and postprocessing, and the microfilm really shows off the textures on the wood and rock. It also does a good job with textures on the sculptures outside of MiA.

I think that this is a good choice all in all, though it probably needs to be uprated by a stop or two. Man, stand-developing a tank full of experimental stuff is turning out to be an interesting experiment here.

Roll 1465

(Assuming that this is in fact roll 1465.)

HP5+ looks good here: no surprise. There is apparently a smudge on the lens, which ruins a fair number of shots; I wonder how many rolls I let that sit on the lens for. I guess I’ll find out as I keep postprocessing. And plenty of shots are overexposed; stand-developing didn’t help with that as much as I’d hoped when the film sensitivity was set to 200 instead of 400. But what came out well looks good: crisp edges (20A, e.g.) and nice dynamic range (e.g., 22A). There’s a lot of good delineation between mid-tones and the darks and lights on either side (26A, 30A, etc.).