My first home developing - FOR SCIENCE! 2

So, me and a friend of mine were talking about having our own business related to lomography when this came up to us.

“We have this old darkroom in the office… nobody goes there… I got to check it out for some material!”

Later that day he called me “So, I’m the the darkroom theres a coulpe developing tanks and some chemicals! Drop by!”

So, I grabed this old Kodak Gold 200 roll, my «for science! roll» – named it that way, because it was a roll for tests… to develop under abnormal circumstances- and headed to the office.

As I arrived, I told him: “Dude, this is shifty! You have to play with controled temperatures…!” As I enter a darkroom for the first time in my life my reaction was : “Really? It looks like a bathroom, only a toilet’s missing…” He handed me a box full of bottles “Here’s the chemicals! Do your magic!”.

As I grabbed the bottles I read “Agfa Rodinal – b&w developer”. “These are black and white developers! I have a color film!”, I said.

“Awww… no deal then…”

“Way deal! Lets develop it anyways!”

We started to prepare our lab for experiments. “I need hot water!”, and he replied “There’s no hot water in here!”. “We’ll do it anyways! Let’s do it anyways! The worst thing it can happen is busting the film… and I’m already expecting that…”

So: this was the proceedure:

(materials I had over there:

wetting agent – ilford

fixing agent – ilford

agfa rodinal)

0 – there are no temperature limits. Tap water just as it comes (it happens it was cold)

1- 1minute with 1:40 wetting agent, shake it (invert the tank and so on)

2- wash it up with tap water

3- 11minutes with rodinal 1:50 (water temperature – dunno, maybe 16ºC) – shake it once or twice every 2 min

4- wash it up again with water

5- 3minutes with the fixer 1:4

6- wash it one more time

7- leave it to dry.

after drying these were some of the results:

Lesson learnt today: FOR SCIENCE! HELL YEAH!