carlo_piloto

<p>Thanks Chris. Do you think agitation as I did could cause such a thin negative?</p>

<p>Hello,<br />I developed my first fujifilm superia x tra 400 using chemicals from Rollei Digibase C41 with quite bad results.<br> Negative is very thin. I used a paterson system 4 with single roll and a thermometer with a K thermocouple that I had at work.<br> I followed the following procedures:<br> I prepared developer, bleach,fixer, stabilizer as per instructions.<br> I warmed up the chemicals placing the bottles in the sink and using hot water (45 C).<br> Afterwards:<br> developer 3.15 at 37.8C. agitation by spinning with the stick. the first 15 seconds, and than 10 sec every 30secs<br />bleach 3.10 at 39C agitation the same as before<br />stabilizer 4.50 sec at 38C agitation the same as before<br />fixer 1.15 sec agitation the same as before<br> The results you can see below:<br> <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17965406-lg.jpg" alt="" width="1500" height="997" /><br> <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17965405-lg.jpg" alt="" width="1500" height="997" /><br> <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17965403-lg.jpg" alt="" width="1500" height="997" /></p> <p><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17965402-lg.jpg" alt="" /><br> The film looks severly underdeveloped. The negative is very thin. The lines and number in the holes are barely visible.<br> THe spots all over the frame may be due to bubbles during the developer. After agitation I did not tap the tank.After<br /> the development I checked readings in boling water and ice to check 100c and 0C.<br> <br />After the development I checked at university in a climatic chamber with thermocouple:<br />with chamber set at 37.8 thermometer is reading 36.1. This would mean that during development I was<br />approximately at 37.8 + 1.5 = 39.3. That's surprising because negative is underdeveloped.<br> The other cause could be insufficient agitation. while agitating I had the feeling that the chemicals<br />were not moving that much.<br> How to you suggest to proceed next roll? Shall I go for inversion instead of spinning keeping other parameters the same? Or shall I increase the temperature/time?<br> Thanks for your help.<br> Servus</p> <p> </p>