I believe I have used a bad developer, but I was wondering if anyone else might know more about it.(posted 8247 days ago)Recently, I began using a bottle of ilfosol-s developer I had bought around March of this year. It has been open since then. This week, I decided to start using it again, on a few rolls of Tri-X film.
My results were bad. Very thing emulsion, and in one case no emulsion left. The negatives were tinted purple as well. I followed the specified developing times but nothing seemed to change on the other rolls.
So I decided I would try Tmax developer instead, which was a new bottle, and my negatives came out almost perfect.
So why did the ilfosol-s do this? Does this chemical really not last long? I know the bottle says it only lasts 4 months, but I figured my results wouldn't have been so dreadful.