Sole Common Pond

[James T]

A small BBOWT reserve.
Intrepid 5×4, Ilford FP4+ at box speed, processed in Ilfotec HC 1+31, 8:00 @ 20°C.
View of the pond (90mm Super Angulon, 1/2s f/32)

Birch Sapling (150mm Symmar, 1/15s, f/18)

 

[Marley's Ghost]

Some nice light and spread of tones there. Glad to see someone else who uses Ilfotec HC ... I adore how dang easy it is ... no drama.

 

[David M]

Excellent stuff! No drama, no pentacle, no incantation required while mixing it. Just works. There’s not even a secret Ilfotec Brotherhood with special handshakes. And quite cheap too.

 

[James T]

The only drawback that I find is that there aren't readily-available reference times for all films, but HC110 (B) + 10% is usually a good starting point for 1+31.

 

[Marley's Ghost]

Excellent stuff! No drama, no pentacle, no incantation required while mixing it. Just works. There’s not even a secret Ilfotec Brotherhood with special handshakes. And quite cheap too.

Damn ... there goes my 'Ilfotec Brotherhood' idea ... just when I'd worked out an initiation ceremony. Have to find another use for the five litres of Ambrosia rice pudding and the stuffed mongoose.

 

[David M]

Ambrosia developer! The best ever. For all films, negative, trannie, whatever, the results are equally good. Lasts for ever in storage. Only drawback is the extended washing time, but you can have a snack while waiting.

 

[Marley's Ghost]

Ambrosia developer! The best ever. For all films, negative, trannie, whatever, the results are equally good. Lasts for ever in storage. Only drawback is the extended washing time, but you can have a snack while waiting.

Only beaten by School Custard-tol - highly concentrated and lumpy!

 

[David M]

And a standard processing time of three minutes in the microwave for all films.
The best thing about both is the saving in printing paper or scanning time that they give.

 

[thronobulax]

And a standard processing time of three minutes in the microwave for all films.
The best thing about both is the saving in printing paper or scanning time that they give.

Intriguing. Do say more ...

 

[David M]

You simply immerse the film in custard, microwave for three and a half minutes, then remove the hot custard. All films treated this way give predictably perfect Zone Zero blacks, all over the image area. As all negatives yield the same image, there’s a great saving in film too, to say nothing of travel costs. One negative will do it all.
If you choose to exhibit your custard-based work, you will need to develop your creative writing skills. Another benefit.

 

[James T]

You simply immerse the film in custard, microwave for three and a half minutes, then remove the hot custard. All films treated this way give predictably perfect Zone Zero blacks, all over the image area. As all negatives yield the same image, there’s a great saving in film too, to say nothing of travel costs. One negative will do it all.
If you choose to exhibit your custard-based work, you will need to develop your creative writing skills. Another benefit.

How about souping it in Oxtail or Minestrone?

 

[David M]

Too advanced for me, as a proud bear of very small brain, but I’m wondering if a yellow edible developer, such as custard, yields a low contrast negative and, shall we say, beetroot soup would give higher contrast. A whole new field of research and experiment beckons.

Your comment reveals that we may not be first in this important field. Some US writers on photography, in the Good ol’ Days, commonly referred to development as soupin’. I had though it was a mere figure of speech but now I think I may have been deceived by my own ignorance.

 

[thronobulax]

Yer all Philistines. The only appropriate medium for this is minestrone ...

 

[David M]

Minestrone, despite its other excellent qualities, is rather grainy. Some might even say lumpy. Good for battlefield and street photography, perhaps? Is it the Rodinal of potable developers?

 

[thronobulax]

Minestrone, despite its other excellent qualities, is rather grainy. Some might even say lumpy. Good for battlefield and street photography, perhaps? Is it the Rodinal of potable developers?

Actually, I was just kidding. It's really a faux developer. You might call it an impasta ...