Re: Overexposed

[George L Smyth <GLSmyth@xxxxxxx>]

Glave Pier Paolo wrote:
> 
> I finally shot and developed my first IR film (a Kodak HIE), but with great
> disappointment I obtained very dense, overexposed negatives.
> I don't think that any of the negatives will result in acceptable prints,
> except for 3 or 4 of them, which are, surprisingly enough, rich in the shadows.
> 
> Can anyone of you Sherlock Holmes of IR tell me what could be wrong?
> 
> These are my data:
> 
> - Camera: Ricoh KR-10M with Sigma 28-70 and red filter.
> 
> - Exposition: I tried to expose the film for 50 ASA; as my camera sets on 100
>   by default (without a DX code), I set a +1 compensation.
> 
> - Development: T-MAX 1+4 - 25 degrees (C) - 9 minutes (the table I had gave me
>   7 minutes; I added 2 min. because it was the 5th time I used that T-MAX
>   solution) - agitation 5s every 60s.
> 
> I received two phone calls during the developing session: could this be the
> problem :-) ?!!!

It sounds like the film was simply overexposed and overdeveloped. 
Assuming you were metering through the filter, I would try shooting at
EI 250.  I don't use TMax developer, but I would think that you would
want to cut back on the development a bit.

Cheers -

george

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