Topic: 4 films, 3 dev schemes

[Indofunk]

As many of you know, I am a big fan of what I like to call "alternate process" photography, by which I just mean that I never shoot film according to the box instructions. Usually this goes one of two ways: 1. underexposing negative film and either push processing or processing normally, or 2. slightly overexposing color reversal film and cross-processing in C41. I'm going to focus on the first one right now, and just give examples of the most common ways I push film. Thanks to Peter, I now have a new way to push film (which is what inspired this post).

First, my old favorite go-to: B&W 400 film exposed at 1600 and stand developed in HC110 (at a 1.6:100 dilution for 1 hour with an agitation at 30min). This is Kentmere 400.

Kentmere 400 @1600 / HC110 1.6:100 1hr

I also expose color negative 400 film at 1600, but I process standard C41, no need to push process.

Kodak Gold 400 @1600 / C41

Here's an example of XP2 at 1600, also standard C41.

Ilford XP2 @1600 / C41

Now, Peter's dev scheme: this is HP5+ at 6400 developed in HC110 dilution B for 40 minutes, with agitation every 5 minutes.

HP5+ @6400 / HC110B 40min

Here's a bonus shot. Just to prove that to my eyes Kentmere is 100% the exact same film as HP5, this is Kentmere at 6400 in HC110B for 40min.

Kentmere @6400 / HC110B 40min

Finally, I tried shooting XP2 at 6400 and developing normally in C41. I think the only reason it even came out is because the shot was very well lit. But that didn't spare it from the extreme grain 😁 I don't think I'll be using this scheme again 😉

XP2 @6400 / C41

[Indofunk]

You know what? Just for fun, here's a bunch of cross processed reversal film. Most of these are expired, bought off of eBay, slightly but hopefully not too abused, and exposed at +1EV. Of course, the final look of the photo is determined by my mood on the day that I processed them, so this isn't a scientific study of exactly what each of these films looks like when it's cross processed, but this is just a bit of fun 😊

Ektachrome Elite II EB100


Ektachrome 160T


Ektachrome 50HC


Ektachrome E100


Ektachrome EPR64


Ektachrome EPW100


Ektachrome EPY 64T


New Ektachrome


Fuji 64T


Sensia 100


Velvia 50