I think my Infasol 3 has gone off...

[thepaulreid]

Hi all, I developed a few rolls of Ilford 400 delta today/yesterday. My negs looked nicely exposed to the eye, but the scans showed very low contrast and lots of grain:

I developed according to the guidelines, so 5:30 mins. I have looked in delta 400 galleries which show a lot less grain on the images than mine. I do not have enough marbles yet to get rid of the air in the bottle, which is 3 weeks old, but not discoloured.

I did manage to save the image by digital trickery although this is not ideal:


Nina in the Sun by The Paul Reid, on Flickr

Any ideas on what is going on??

Thanks

Paul

 

[dxqcanada]

The Ilfosol data sheet shows 5:30 min for 200 ISO Delta 400 @ 1+9 dilution - 20 degrees.

Concentrated solution shelf life of 4 months with half tight capped bottle.

I assume you are referring to the concentrated (not working) solution has been kept for 3 weeks ?
Also the negs show uneven development. How did you agitate the tank ?

 

[Derrel]

Looks to me as if the film was fogged at some point prior to the fixer solution...

 

[thepaulreid]

The Ilfosol data sheet shows 5:30 min for 200 ISO Delta 400 @ 1+9 dilution - 20 degrees.

Concentrated solution shelf life of 4 months with half tight capped bottle.

I assume you are referring to the concentrated (not working) solution has been kept for 3 weeks ?
Also the negs show uneven development. How did you agitate the tank ?

Hi, yep I am referring to the concentrated solution., I agitated for the 1st 30 secs then the last 10 secs of each minute.

 

[dxqcanada]

My negs looked nicely exposed to the eye, but the scans showed very low contrast and lots of grain

You do not see any banding on the negative ... or an overall dark tone ?

 

[compur]

What Derrel said.