I went to see a couple of friends' bands at a place in Brooklyn called the Silent Barn. The Silent Barn is DARK. They don't bother with such luxuries as stage lights or anything. I was already planning on pushing Tri-X to 1600, but turns out I had to expose at 3200, maybe even 6400. Basically I opened wide (1.7) and shot at either 1/15" when I wanted the background to be relatively steady, or 1/4" when I didn't care if my hands shook the photo.
So when I got home, late, tired, drunk, of course I decided that I
had to develop the film right away. The plan was to semi-stand in Rodinal 1:100 for an hour, but I fell asleep after the inversion at 1/2 hour, and woke up 5.5 hours later. So what you're seeing is Tri-X @ 3200 stand-developed in Rodinal for SIX HOURS. Amazingly, the highlights were no more blown out than I expected from the 1 hour development (though the shadows probably didn't benefit very much either). And in a weird twist of events, the fact that the film base itself got way overdeveloped (the entire roll, edges and between exposures, was light brown) actually helped my V500 detect the exposure borders, so I could use the auto-thumbnail feature to save time.
So anyways, here without further ado are the results. Black, black, black, oh look there's something that might be a person's face!
Wait, is timor here? No? Good, I'll go ahead and say it ... Rodinal 1:100 will develop ANYthing [c] Indofunk Satish
