Over the first few days of February I spent a little time in my darkroom. I had about 50 to 60 film holders that still had exposed film in them, from late 2024. I unloaded them all, and put the film away in boxes to await development. Then I reloaded all the film holders with fresh film. With this out of my way, on February 7th, I was able to set up and process a batch of film, for the first time this year.
It was a batch of Kodak T-Max 1000, developed in 510 Pyro. Most of the shots were from 2023, including about ten that were from the trip to Vancouver Island in that fall. There were a couple from 2024. Once the film is washed and dried I will be scanning and posting some images.
Then on February 9th I processed a second batch of film. This was Ilford HP5+, also developed in 510 Pyro. This was a mix of stuff, some from outings last fall, some from the first trip to Saskatchewan in June, and a few from Beer Parlour Project outings. For the pictorial images I rated the film at 320 iso and developed for 7:25 minutes. For the Beer Parlour stuff, I rated the film at 1250 iso... so significantly underexposed... and developed for 30:00 minutes.
Below are a couple of snapshots taken with my phone. The first is a shot of my stainless steel film hangers in the individual processing tanks [in the background], with the batch of 20 sheets of Ilford HP5+ in the film washer [in the foreground]. The second snapshot is of all of my 4" x 5" sheet film holders piled up on my mat cutter, waiting to be put away. Each holder is individually bagged in an anti-static bag, and there is a note sheet written up for each one, indicating what film is loaded.
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