Under Developed Negatives

[Alan9940]

I think almost everybody hates testing, but you only need to do it once.

Well, yes, unless a manufacturer changes something about their product; like Kodak did with a number of their B&W films and, most recently, apparent reformulations of their B&W film developers. Yeah, many folks have commented that the new HC-110 is identical to the old vis-a-vis developing film, but I follow my photo mentors philosophy of: If anything changes, you need to re-test to be sure. Of course, this is simply my way of working...

 

[David M]

Sounds about right to me.

 

[Cospinol]

You haven't mentioned the developer, but if you're using a replenished developer, you might want to check that it is still OK. We have had discussions on the forum previously about certain developers fading away. Slice an exposed neg in half and process one in fresh and the other in the old stuff. Then side-by-side in the neg carrier.

From what I had experienced that might at least be the case with Kodak T-Max RS developer (assuming that my bottles are not leaky).