Topic: Why am I so bad at C41?

[Adam Doe]

And if you ever want a black trumpet, strip away all the oil and wax and soak it in selenium toner. It turns the brass jet black.

What scares me is that Francois might be speaking from experience.

[gsgary]

Next I'm going to try to develop the trumpet, agitate using a Marshall fullstack on 11, and scan using Alice Cooper's disemboweled eyes.

Your Marshall only goes to 11?

[Indofunk]

And if you ever want a black trumpet, strip away all the oil and wax and soak it in selenium toner. It turns the brass jet black.

What scares me is that Francois might be speaking from experience.

Clearly not, because he didn't realize that brass instruments are generally coated with lacquer, not wax

[Francois]

Well... no I didn't soak a trumpet in Selenium. But I read that it's the best way to blacken a pinhole that's punched in thin brass.

But on the horn side, I did play the trombone for a year in high-school and still have my mouthpiece...
I'm not sure I'd still remember how to play it though 

[Indofunk]

So I did what I normally do when I ask for advice on internet forums and receive intelligent, well-informed, and 100% accurate information/advice: I ignore all of it and just do what I had planned on doing all along  In this case, that was to keep the dev volume at my normal 500mL for 2 rolls, and just increase the amount of agitation (as per James' suggestion). And it seems to have worked! The top roll came out perfectly fine, no small band of under-development. I imagine that dev volume and frequency of agitation might work like aperture and shutter speed in this case, so if I increased one I could keep the other the same. Or something. At any rate, it worked, problem solved, thanks for the great advice, and sorry I ignored it all

[Francois]

Glad you managed to get it working.

[Indofunk]

Oh, but some of the advice that I *am* following is to be super-careful about blix-to-dev contamination, so I'm using separate funnels and stirring rods, and I will never fix film prior to adding color dev