Stand Development: Easy-Mode for Black and White Film 

Give it a go man it's so useful sometimes! I recognised your name from your Leica videos by the way, subscribed!

can you link that "ilford bath"? because I can't really find it, google gives me only Ilford stop bath. And for that I use vinegar in 1:10 dilution ;)

@@aumortis www.ilfordphoto.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Reducing-Wash-Water.pdf Ilford Bath is really simple, instead of leaving the water running to wash your film, after you have done the fixer, you fill the container with water and you turn it 5 times, open and let the water out, fill it again with water and turn 10 times, trown the water again out, fill the container one last time and turn for 20 times (you have to double the number of turns every time you fill your container with water) and its done!

There’s oceans full of the stuff

stfu lol

@@aumortis you water your tank and turn it 3, 6, 12 and 24 times:)

Glad you like it! Stand developing is a very forgiving method of development so the difference between 1 hour and 1:20 won't be very big. I like to do the halfway inversion because it can help avoid some of the drawbacks but if you want to do full stand then 1 hour should suffice. It works for all black and white films.

just scale down the amount of chemistry you use

@@jacobshapiro9128 Thanks Jacob.

Despite this it can still be a useful tool. For example a roll that is suddenly required to be pushed mid way through or a found roll of black and white which you aren't sure about.

@@JonathanNotley Maybe for "shot in the dark" processing of a roll you aren't sure of, however the uncontrolled nature of stand development pretty much negates the ability to push process. Stand development works over extended times because the process relies on exhaustion of the very small amount of developing agent used.

Rodinal will last a long, long time. You'll get bored with photography long before the developer goes stale. Stop bath is just acetic acid, and is really optional, but if you don't let it evaporate, you'll be good to go forever. The fixer will last years in storage. The most worrisome chemical to age is the developer, but that's not an issue with Rodinal. Good luck!

Someone just used a 50 year old rodinal to develop with, and there was no difference

As you said I just opened the Aperture and dropped the shutter as low as I dared. I think if I’d spot metered her face I’d have got somewhere between 1600-3200. Problem is I knew that light in the foreground would throw off the camera meter so I just went with it and prayed to the stand gods. That’s why this process is so forgiving, it has your back when you make a quick shot that isn’t correctly metered but is focused and composed enough to make a nice image.

I reckon that you’d be fine using this recipe for 100 speed films, the benefit of this is that it just doesn’t care what film speed you put in it’ll chomp through anything! I think Adonal is the same, r09 is too.

By its nature, stand development is sketchy. The results are not reliable. It's quite possible that the other films "went South", showing why stand development is something a few people try once or twice and then abandon: Huge tonal compression (flat), streaks easily seen in the mid-tones, unreliable densities and inconsistent results. The theme of the video would be corrupted if a serious examination of such results were displayed. The best images you see from stand development are urban night scenes, where the shadows are fully developed (assuming enough developer is used) and specular highlights (street lights and neon signs) are controlled to minimize blow-out. Normal daylight scenes with a full range of tones are areas of even tone (sky) are usually a disaster. (A mid-development agitation will reduce any bromide drag effect, but its doesn't eliminate it, since the problem, a concentration of bromine by-products inhibiting development, occurs over time. The one agitation just breaks up that concentration and started the process over again. And of course, standing in developer for 90 minutes insures that your film image will be as grainy as is possible to produce. )

Thanks! I’ll make sure to boost it a bit next time :)

Yes it does! The grain and contrast will be different but you’ll get images on each frame.

Jonathan Notley Awesome! It’s insanely powerful technique then! Thanks for the reply!

Get a Plustek 8200i. I use 3600ppi for 35mm. Above that I don’t see any difference but the files become enormous.

Hmmmmmm

Jonathan Notley shhhh I'm helping you out here aight

some with less silver in it. If u have much silver in the film, u should use some fast and strong developer like D76

Any film where you do not care about your images. Seriously, the very long development time required, whether "stand" or normal agitation, will insure you will get the largest and most apparent grain, although sharp edged grain. The faster the film ISO, the larger that grain. Choice depends on whether that course grain enhances or impairs your image. It also depends on what you will do with the image. If you are planning a wet darkroom enlargement over 5x in size, you probably want to minimize apparent grain by using a slow film ISO 125 or less, maybe a T-grain type film as well. If you are going to scan and post the image to social media It probably doesn't make any difference which film you use.

You shouldn't really stand develop with anything other than rodinal. Other developers will give you bromide drag much easier than rodinal.

D76 would make so much grain that images could be totally useless. D76 is for stock or 1+1 developing. Higher solution means more grain, I know it is weird but thats how D76 works, Basically very unusual from other developers

@@MKVD you can also do stand development with HC110 diluted, or FX2 (Crawley).

I’ve tried a couple of different mics and editing adjustments. I think it’s the acoustics of the room I record in.

Yes, it's your room. You need a tie clip microphone, this will improve the sound quality enormously ;-)

... and best quality with a headset microphone, only disadvantage is the look.

I have and was using a lav mic

ok ... so you have unfavorable conditions in your room. Your rooms is nice, but because it's naked it's not yt-friendly.