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How did you handle the initial agitation? Did you go to a full 30 secs? I still maintain it’s not the developer, but rather a combination of your technique (too little initial agitation), choice of dilution and short dev. times, and the choice of tank necessitating long initial fill times (relative to the short total development times). But you won’t know until you try HC110 at a higher dilution, and then agitate longer for the first cycle. Keep us posted if you try any of these. HC110 is great stuff. No reason you couldn’t get it to work for you.
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Tank fill time with the Jobo 1520 was about 8 seconds, or about 2% of the development time for both HC-110 and DD-X. Other than the streaks, I have liked the results I've been getting with HC-110. It's also far more economical than DD-X. Although I've been growing tired of experimenting with it and wasting rolls of film, I am curious to see what happens if I move to an even higher dilution like H, and the longer development time it necessitates, as well as a longer initial agitation. I think I'll burn another roll of film and try that next. |
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I really don't understand what dilution would have to do with straight dense stripes on the film, except waisting the developer directly to the film. |
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I think the theory here is that a more dilute developer will not act as quickly as the film is being poured into the tank, and the longer development time necessitated by the more dilute developer will allow for more even development. At least that's my understanding. |
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In the first post you referred to HC110 ‘original formula’. Is that developer you have recently purchased, or the original Kodak formula before the change, around 4-5 years ago? I’m just curious if the age of your product might be an issue.
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I thought one of HC-110's claims to fame was it's almost indefinite shelf life, even after being opened? But I have started to wonder if my bottle has gone 'off' and I may pick up a new bottle of the updated, less viscous, formula and give it a try. |
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Thanks. This is a quick reply as I’m out and about. Perhaps use something purchased fresh to get you up and running. HC110 can last a long time, but it may depend on storage. Using fresh chemicals should guarantee results.
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Someone on another forum jogged my memory about a clip test I did before using my bottle of HC-110 for the first time: I submerged a snip of film leader into the working strength developer for the 6.5 minute development time I planned to use and the leader turned a dark black, with light just barely visible through it. This told me that the developer was still 'good' so I proceeded to use it. But using a fresh bottle would certainly eliminate any possibility of the expired developer being the culprit here. |
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Logan, I've downloaded your images from here and inverted them to visualise what they look like as negatives. I'm struck by something odd. These are dark streaks on the negatives, right? But they don't extend across adjacent shadow areas which are light on the negatives. For instance, on your first image, the RH streak doesn't appear to affect the woodland on the horizon, which is almost transparent in negative. Likewise, the LH streak on image 2 doesn't affect the cross.
Better brains than mine may see other explanations for this, but I'm beginning to wonder (having seen all the discounted suggestions on your similar thread on Photrio) whether this is some kind of competition effect for scarce developing agent within the (dark) highlight areas, combined with an agitation regime that fails to overcome this? Does anyone know what the concentration of developing agent would be in HC-110 at 1:47, and how this would compare with other 'standard' developers? |
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I'm not sure if I'm interpreting your question correctly, but I'm using a tank that contains 500ml of working strength developer. That means there is over 10ml of developer in the tank during processing. Since I'm only processing one roll at the moment with an empty reel above the loaded reel, I would think there is more than enough developer in there to avoid exhaustion. |
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