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Well, that did not worked as planned...
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Well first off I got 15 Frames on one 120 film. Hey, Pentacon Six, you did well haha
And my negative Carrier did not clear completly. What can I do about that, and what was the fault?
Then, the negatives came out really light, so I guess my developingtime was too short.
It was Tmax 400+2 in Tetenal Ultrafin, 1+20 for 16 minutes.
I will upload some scans tommorow, because the film is drying atm.

Okay, until then

Timo Sad


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get the camera serviced or buy some working one;)

I think you underdeveloped the negative - tmax400 push+2 in ultrafin 1+10 should be around 21min@20°C

http://infomagazin.phototec.de/infomag_erechner.php


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But the Massive Devchart said, for Tmax-Films for a +2 push time*1.33
http://www.digitaltruth.com/devchart.php?doc=pushproc
See?
I was wondering, what was right then :/

And my other Pentacon body does not have any problems with the filmadvance
Ah, I guess I have to accept it, as second film :/
At least there are Pics on it Smile
I will try to refix it to clear the base tommorow, when it is completly dry


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I think that i found one of my mistakes:
I took the fixing-time for a normal film from the bottle tetenal superfix....
It's for minutes and I think Tmax needs like 10 or something in this range right?
Damn, this film is pulling me down! Evil or Very Mad

Timo


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non-standard processing is always tricky, consider it that you made a test for next time;) but it needs to be said, that you shouldn´t judge too much from negative - it depends how the film will perform in enlarger. some of my friends say, that properly developed film allows to read newspaper through it:)

just a quick tip: if you´re unsure about developing time (especially when push-processing), don´t be shy to use longest time you find on the internet. underdeveloped/underxposed film is much bigger problem than overdeveloped/overexposed.


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I got some more Tmax 400@1600 laying around, I will try the 20Minutes next I think.

Thanks for the advises, Berraneck,
I'm sure the next one will be better!

Regards, Timo


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good luck;)