----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 3:31 PM Subject: OT:IR at home.What went wrong
Dave, what kind of tank are you using? Jobo is IR tight, as is SS with a steel lid, but the SS tanks with soft plastic lids are not IR tight. You didn't mention if it is the film was fogged to the edges or if it was the image area only. Ummm, if you could put the film onto a light table and shoot an image of it with yer digital and send me a jpeg, I might be able to give you an idea of what happened. William Robb > > Hi all. > A quiry for the IR crowd out there. > I had a roll of Kodak IR in the SP500 since Septmber(i know too long)and i shot the last > few frames > this past weekend.I had a big problem when i went to pull it out of the can.I did not > realize how tough a > film base it was and could not rip a good start line,so i put it in the tank(with lid)and > went for the cutting > tools.I had great difficulty in loading the reel.It would roll smooth until the last 6" or > so and get VERY > tight.I finally loaded it with a bit of tightness and did the proccessing. > I used Ilford Ilfotec dd x (mixed in mid Feb) and Ilford fixer(mixed last week).There is > no times for this > developer but Aaron found one in his book of 7 min.When i pulled the film out of the > wash,crap, > all but 3-4 were ruined.Most were very black or nothing at all.The few thet developed were > not of the > same caliber of the other 7 done in various labs. > Did i fog this film when i put in back in the tank and opened the door for cutting > tools.Or did it sit in the > camera too long, or the wrong chemicals. > Oh and the last few frames must have had film touching as there was a curved line and > sproket holes > visible. > > Any clues to were i went wrong.I plan on shooting double what i did in 2002 and want to > home > develope this stuff.Any reel loading tricks. > > Dave Brooks > > > >
