Showing posts with label wet development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wet development. Show all posts

Friday, January 1, 2016

2016

Another year had passed. Rummaging through my stuff, I found a roll of undeveloped film, and a bottle of long expired Kodak HC-110 Developer. School's great, with school, comes school holidays where you are totally free to explore.

Expired film, expired developer, fixer with unknown shelf life, why not have a go at it?

I figured I should test the potency of the developer before anything, dropping the end of the film I snipped off into a rather concentrated developer solution, the film turned black after a few seconds or so. On hindsight, I should have used a working concentration to get a better feel of it's potency. 

Nevertheless, the developer still works and I set off to develop my roll of Ilford Delta 400 B&W Film. With some guess work from how quickly the film turned black when dumped into the developed, I used about 1.5 times the recommended developing time and hoped for the best.

Here are some of the better results, with some minor edits. :)

Majulah Singapura, Forward Singapore - Singapore's Coat of Arms on the gate to the Istana
Singapore's current President, Dr Tony Tan and his wife


Since I'm at it, why stop experimenting? Here's a roll of expired Lomography ISO 400 Color Print Film from my wife, developed using the B&W process.

Pleasantly surprised by how some of them turned out. Taken at the now demolished King Albert Park McDonald's.