Testing the old box of ilford ID-11 – Fomapan 200 exposed with Nikon F2

 

Hello here! After the long-long pause finally another blogpost. Don’t get it me wrong – I have a lot to publish, but the time that I need for this is the biggest problem, so I have to do the choice and to choose what is really more important in this period of my life – and this blog is not in the higher priority of the thing I have to do. And don’t like the sentence the previous sentence, but life is life. I hope to make some changes in my timeline soon, to rearrange and to set the everyday things which I have to do right and to post here more. Much more. More Endlessly.

From all the things I have to post and to write, I chose right now the most recent one. A few weeks ago I got a few boxes of the old (the year 2000 – 2004) ilford ID-11 developer. I read that it’s ok to use the old developers if the packages are still in an unopened condition and decided to mix 5L of the solution and to try it with some camera and some film. A decision was made and my choice fell on the beautiful Nikon F2 and the Fomapan 200 film that I don’t really love so it was ok to use it just for this test. I mixed the ilford A and B package and got some strange brown-red color, that made me sad and I already was ready to pour out the whole 5L of the solution but stopped myself with the idea that I always can pour it out, but before I can test it.

I finished the roll just in one week – it’s a very fast result for me, bcos despite the feeling of just testing and feeling free of my regular habits to stay slow with film shooting, to take only one click of every specific scene and a moment, I stayed true to my habits, but here and there I took some more images of the same object. For the developing process, I used 6 min of the stock solution. You can see some of the results I got during the test.