Grainy negatives

[jim_bob12]

Hi folks,

 

i have just started developing my own C41 negatives and im having some realy

good and some realy bad results - i just developed this film:

 

The film was Konica VX100 and it was developed using the Nova press kit (i cant

seem to find kits with a seperate bleach and fix). I have had some very fine

results from the same film and chems, but this one is extremely grainy, whats

up? dead blix?

 

This is the third film i have developed in the same chems - the first two were

very good, fine grained.

 

Thanks

 

Jim<div></div>

[jim_bob12]

its a resize of a 12 megapixel scan, my scanner is crappy (a Pacific Image Prime Film 3600u), but i still get very fine scans from the same type of film with very little grain - your right though this is significantly grainier than B&W stuff i have shot with Neopan 1600

 

This is what the grain looks like close-up<div></div>

[Ed_Ingold]

I have had poor luck using combined bleach and fixer (BLIX) - it does not seem to oxidize and dissolve all of the metallic silver. This leaves an abnormally dense negative which is hard to scan and balance the color. Moreover, you cannot use Digital ICE, as it degrades the color balance and exaggerates the grain. I have no problems scanning commercially processed film.

 

Adorama and (I think) Calumet will ship any or all of the Kodak C-41 chemistry, even though B&H will not. There are several varieties of C-41, so make sure you have one for dip and dunk processing.

[jim_bob12]

Doh! I just realized the film expired in April 2005, is that likely to give an extreme increase in grain?