[pure-silver] Re: [inconsistent results with TXP

  • From: Shannon Stoney <sstoney@xxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:28:39 -0500

How was the film stored (both before and after being exposed)? Under good conditions, a delay in processing of a few months wouldn't cause the extreme differences you've described, and year-old film should work fine.


IT was stored at room temperature in TN, about 75 degrees at most, sometimes up to 80 on hot days, both before and after processing.


Also, if you are processing it using the same methods and chemicals as the recent shots, that would seem to rule out underdevelopment, and point the finger at underexposure. Did you use the same camera/lens for both sets of film?


Same camera, same lens. I thought that maybe the lens shutter might have been slightly off since it hadn't been used for a while, but many of the exposures were made using the B setting and a watch, and were several seconds long. Also usually if a shutter is sticky, it overexposes rather than under exposes.

The same camera, lens, meter, and timer worked perfectly two weeks ago in New Orleans. The only difference was: it was a different batch of film, and I processed the film immediately.

--shannon




Shannon Stoney <sstoney@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I have two theories about why this might be happening:

1) maybe the film I used over the summer was old. I can't remember if
I used some that had been stored for a while or what. If the film was
a year or so old, would that make it less responsive to exposure and
development?

2) Maybe if film sits around waiting to be processed for several
months, it loses responsiveness to chemistry? (I have not found this
to be particularly true in the past however.)

3) Maybe I consistently metered wrong, or the meter was messed up.
But I just had the meter checked and it was fine. Also it was fine
when I used it for the batch of film I shot and processed last week.



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