Until last weekend I hadn’t shot any film for well over a year. I went out shooting with TMY which expired in April 2017 but didn’t give it much thought.
I wondered if I had I mixed my developer wrongly: after the usual time, the negatives appeared dramatically thin. I checked the developer temperature with 2 thermometers and it was correct so I added some extra Metol, the developing agent in D-23 and saw development speed up a bit but not enough. I added some more Metol and after around 10 extra minutes I developed the negatives to normal density and saved this negative from the trash can.
Perhaps the film lost some speed while sitting on the shelf - or perhaps I made a mistake mixing the developer the first time. Whatever the cause, it wasn’t a loss.
The IR viewing device paid for itself today, again.
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