Monday, November 14, 2011

Phenidone-Ascorbic acid - fourth film in the developer

Camera Canon EOS 50e, kit lens 28-80mm
Film Kodal Gold 200 C41  11 minutes @ 20C

Altered recipe, added phenidone from 1:100 vs ascorbic acid to 1:40
Upped the phenidone from the previous amount and adjusted the development time accordingly (to what was said to be the activity)

Development time based on a baseline for std. B/W film 6,5 minutes (said to be comparable to D-76 at this concentration of Phenidone)
Compensated for C41 film (ca 25% longer time, and a 6,5% longer time per film through the developer)
6,5 minutes x 1.25 x 1 x 1.065 x 1.065 x 1.065 for a total of 9,8 minutes @ 20 centigrade.
Since we've had many films through the developer already, I added 1 minute to be on the safe side.


Kanon Gold 200 extra phenidone added, straight scan
Exposed at boxspeed, -1 step and + 1 step

 Exposed at box speed, straight scan
Box speed postprocessed 1 step


Exposed at - 1 step, straight scan
Exposed at - 1 step, postprocessed.


Exposed at + 1 step, straight scan
Exposed at + 1 step, postprocessed.


Exposed at boxspeed, -1 step and + 1 step

Exposed at box speed, straight scan
Box speed postprocessed 1 step


Exposed at - 1 step, straight scan
Exposed at - 1 step, postprocessed


Exposed at + 1 step, straight scan
Exposed at + 1 step, postprocessed

This seem a pretty good mixture, the negatives are better, but still there is no real blacks.  Also there is the small matter of fogging, not in this C41 Gold 200 film, but on B&W films.
The recipe will be adjusted with a little KBr, but as reported by Trond 0.5 gram /litre was to much so we'll try with less.

Also what remains to be proven is how many films can safely be processed in a litre, we're now at 4 films, with a 2 gram / litre ascorbic acid / 1:40 Phenidone mix, so more films will be processed.














1 comment:

  1. Erik, 0.5g KBr/L was great. The reason for my lousy results was simply that the developer was exhausted and I didn't realize that. When I added 2 g ascorbic acid, the activity was back without any negative effects of the KBr, so too much KBr wasn't the culprit here.

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