Originally Posted by
j.e.simmons
A friend ordered some Pyrocat HD and his negatives were far, far underdeveloped. We live in the same town, use the same water, he used the same film and times I use, so the negatives should have been close.
In trying to figure out what went wrong, one of the tests I made was to try developing a sheet with his A solution and fresh sodium carbonate, in other words, a new B solution. The film developed correctly. He continued to develop film with his old part A and new part B until he ran out of part A.
I also tried some of my part A and his part B and got the same extremely underdeveloped negatives.
I don't know what would have happened and have no explanation. I just know what I saw in this one instance.
juan
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