This negative is from the mixed batch of twenty sheets that I developed on March 14th. The developer was HC-110 Dilution B. The batch included one sheet of Arista EDU, four recently exposed sheets of Ilford FP4+, and 15 sheets of J&C Classic 200. The Arista and J&C received 8:30 minutes of development at 20C. The FP4+ was developed longer, for plus development.
J&C Photo was a film supplier based in the midwest States.... Kansas City I believe...? They were great to deal with and I bought a bunch of film from them. It seem to recall it was in the late 1990's. Then, they suddenly went out of business. Rumor was it was some sort of frivolous lawsuit filed by a disgruntled customer. Fortunately most of their product line was picked up by other suppliers. At the time they were in operation they were the only source for some rather unique film and paper. I miss them....
This shot was taken at the Leduc Number One historic site. It is the interior of an old International Truck. This particular film, the J&C Classic 200, does not do a great job of handling shadow detail, at least in combination with HC-100 developer. It was probably a poor choice on my part to select it for this particular image. The shadow areas were spot metered at an exposure value of around 9 to 9-2/3, which the highlights on the seat and the windshield fell as high as EV15 to 16. I exposed at EV 12, which held the highlight values alright, but the shadows fell right off and didn't hold very much detail.
I shot this image on June 21st 2022 at about 12:40 in the afternoon. This is pretty much exactly the summer solstice, so no surprise that the light was rather harsh. I used my Ebony SV45TU view camera and a 135mm lens. The exposure was for 1/8 second at F32.0
I'll chalk this one up as a learning experience and move on to better things.
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