Queen of Spades
TPF Noob!
Hello!
So, I used to be an avid photographer in high school and college, and my husband recently built me a great light-tight dark room. I developed B&W film no problem. I also have some black and white film from a shop that was developed.
The problem is that when I was doing test strips, the first one came out almost black with some of the negatives (contact sheet with varying times 3-15 seconds on f11), the second one (3 seconds on f11) came out BLACK with hardly any image, and the last one (no exposure, just straight to dektol...) came out stark dark grey!
So, is the problem my crappy dektol (I'd been having issues with it and may not have gotten the mix/dilution right) or the old paper (given to me from a friend)?
Help! Let me know what you think!
Much Sunshine,
Annie
So, I used to be an avid photographer in high school and college, and my husband recently built me a great light-tight dark room. I developed B&W film no problem. I also have some black and white film from a shop that was developed.
The problem is that when I was doing test strips, the first one came out almost black with some of the negatives (contact sheet with varying times 3-15 seconds on f11), the second one (3 seconds on f11) came out BLACK with hardly any image, and the last one (no exposure, just straight to dektol...) came out stark dark grey!
So, is the problem my crappy dektol (I'd been having issues with it and may not have gotten the mix/dilution right) or the old paper (given to me from a friend)?
Help! Let me know what you think!
Much Sunshine,
Annie