Developing film in this Spanish heat presents some interesting problems. Daytime max of 43C, night min of 24C and tap water well over 30C.
I cool the diluted chemicals in the fridge, including wash water. Loads of ice in the water bath to keep everything at 20C while developing. Works well once I got the hang of it. I can maintain the temperature to within half a degree.
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Cool! Did some E6 back in the nineties, what made it possible to keep that within 1/10th of a degree was to keep a towel in the tub & keep that on top inbetween agitations :-)
That stuff was super sensitive, also when it came to contamination…
Before that I got lots of single chemicals & mixed up old developers and so on, especially Kodak D-23 was great!
Oh and also D-76 mixed with a good weight from the base chemicals came out MUCH more original hahaha…
I’m getting excellent results using Ilford Delta 100 exposed at 50 ISO and developed in Spur Acurol-N 1+70 for 9.5 mins. Excellent whites with good detail and dark blacks. Almost no adjustments in post; mostly set the black and white points.
