Long weekend includes Monday and I was busy with other things than
photography. Mostly rebuilding garden :-) But anyhow, I did few prints and
did interesting film development. I developed my test roll of Fuji Neopan
1600 exposed at 800 with different exposure of the same subject in constant
lightning. And also some two rolls of Fuji Neopan 1600 exposed at 1000 ASA.
I believe I will publish soon detail 2700dpi cropped scans on
Last Roll page, but I can tell you few things
about it right now.
I developed both exposed films in Paterson Aculux 2 at dilution 1:9. The
one exposed at 800ASA I developed for 10 minutes. While first 8 minutes I
was agitating by inversion each minutes 3 times in about 8-10 sec. The last
two minutes I didn't make any move with developing tank in a hope to get
more development in shadow parts. All shots on this roll where done in low
contrast overcast day and I have feeling that time could be little longer
than 10 minutes. I made it based on Paterson data for 1600ASA which is 12
minutes minimal.
I had quite a discussion at
photo.net
about suggested Paterson Aculux 2 development times which turns out to be
too long in my first experience, but more and more I work with this
developed and Fuji Neopan I realized that development time really depends
on light which is used when exposing film. For example I had rolls exposed
on beach, where I was overexposing by one stop and all those where heavily
overdeveloped even with minimal suggested time from Paterson. Than I
developed few rolls with normal time and there went as the best rolls I
ever developed. But the where shot with different camera and in overcast
day.
I will come to this subject more in on e of my articles I am preparing as
a part to replace
notes page.
All this observation was more or less conform on other two rolls I
developed Sunday, which were exposed on 1000ASA and developed for 12
minutes where agitation was same as before. Three inversion in about eight
seconds for first ten minutes than last two minutes no inversion. These
films turn out little better, but what is interesting on one roll there
were shot done (this roll wasn't mine) in night in room and other shots
done on mountains in snow in full sun light. Shots in night would be better
with maybe one or two minutes more with now inversion to get more details
in shadow parts. On the other hand the shots from mountain are just
perfect.
What I wan't to show on my last roll page is effect of different exposure
of Neopan 1600 when developed same time. Difference in achieved details in
shadow, and who knows what I will see when I look on grain.
