Developing film

[John 2]

Good point Brian.

[Shibang]

Hi Gary, whatever the cause, it sounds like your film is fogged. I'm assuming BTW that when you say the final result was just dark grey film you mean all of the emulsion surface and you can't see the separate exposure areas. That's generally down to a light leakage somewhere. I could be that the film is old stock but this isn't often the cause, on any film camera the back might not be light tight or you may be allowing light in somewhere in your developing workflow. If you can see the individual exposure areas i.e. the separate image frames but they are greyed out, it is likely that the problem is in front of the film plane. If you are using an old bellows camera, the bellows might be suspect or you may have a sticking shutter. Doesn't sound good but hope this helps.

I missed this.

The grey was very even through out.

[loosecanon]

Scanner - The cheapish epson I bought, V70 I think was poor for film scanning. The Canon 8400F (bought for £30 new but on shelf) excellent film and slide scanning, as good as a dedicated film scanner and very quick

[GrahamS]

RO9 is a Rodinal formulation (RO=ROdinal) IMHO the film was completely fogged before development. I would load another unused/unexposed film and process it in the same way and see if the same thing happens.

Are you sure that you diluted the developer concentrate correctly at 25:1 or 50:1 and not 2.5:1 or 5.0:1?

[Shibang]

Hi Graham,

I can't be 100% sure I mixed correct but think I must have been very close.

I'm going to load another roll into this camera and tape up the door and see if that's any better then if so look at replacing the seal.

I saw an Epson v300 used for 35 euros so might make an offer.

It's just around the corner so easy to collect.

I saw some reviews saying the scanner is ok but can be a little slow and the colours are not so great but can be easily fixed in Lightroom.

Regards,

Gary