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Wednesday, 3rd December, 2003

Notes from 3rd Dec 2003
[posted at 11:00 GMT]    

I am kind of fighting with Aculux 2 from Paterson. After I developed the first roll for 15min and 4x inversion in each minute (as recommended for Fuji Neopan 400), I did the same on film exposed in contrast full light.
I have got overdeveloped quite dens negatives. They are maybe good for enlarger with strong light, but definitely not for my scanner. So next time I did 12 minutes and 4xinversion in min. Little, but very minimal improvement.
Yesterday I developed for 10 minutes and only one inversion. Results are better, but still something is missing. I have to look more into it. Strange what a difference between recommendation and reality for different light. I find 30% difference quite a lot.