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Tuesday, 9th December, 2003

Notes from 9th Dec 2003
[posted at 11:00 GMT]    

Sunday I also exposed test roll, where I shoot two scenes, high and low contrast ones with different exposures. U exposed from two stops under up to two stops over exposure indicated by my meter.
I developed that roll yesterday in Paterson FX-50 in standard 1:1:13 dilution for 15min @ 20C for Fuji Neopan 400.
I didn't scan it yet, but from short inspection by eye I can see how overexposed negative looks. It is muddy dense, something like light is expanding to neighborhoods areas and polluting it. This way all negative looks like through milk glass. I will see more today when I am going to scan it.

Some of you maybe wondering why I didn't finished (or continue) testing with Aculux 2? I just realize, and find confirmation of that on Paterson web site, that Aculux 2 is not very suitable for high contrast scene. And those are situations I shoot on few rolls which I need to develop. So I gave a try to FX-50.