{"id":4114,"date":"2024-05-22T23:54:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T22:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2025-10-12T21:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T20:46:16","slug":"nailed-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/22\/nailed-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Nailed it!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Those pictures mentioned in my post about playing with artificial light<\/a>? They were a total loss. I messed up the development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was not very happy about this costly mistake and needed to know what went wrong. So, I loaded another roll of film into the Nikon FM2 and drove straight to the country park to get some test shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It turns out that a 24-frame roll is rather long when you haven’t planned what to photograph. It took me nearly two hours to get the shots, mostly of random nature things, before I could return home for Round Two of developing Kodak Ultramax with Bellini C-41<\/em>. Now armed with a sous-vide heater, I was confident I could keep a stable temperature throughout the process. I was also going to do inversion agitation instead of twirling the small plastic rod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The development was successful, but was it a fluke? The only way to be sure was to do Round Three of developing with Bellini C-41<\/em>. To be doubly sure, this time I used a 20-year-old roll of Fujifilm Superia 400. Again, shooting the 24 frames took some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pictures that came out were as good as can be for expired film. I knew I had nailed developing with Bellini C-41<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Weston<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\"Two<\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I think the most significant change in my process was the use of inversion agitation\u2014which looks like shaking a cocktail drink, except with less vigour\u2014instead of agitation with the plastic rod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even P was impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those pictures mentioned in my post about playing with artificial light? They were a total loss. I messed up the development. I was not very happy about this costly mistake and needed to know what went wrong. So, I loaded another roll of film into the Nikon FM2 and drove straight to the country park […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-14m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3315,"url":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/31\/the-fg-20-must-go\/","url_meta":{"origin":4114,"position":0},"title":"The FG-20 must go","author":"Eddy Young","date":"31 August 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Another week, another series of tests with film. 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