I had a really strange thing happen on the way to a negative yesterday...(posted 8308 days ago)I had six negatives to develop - I use four tubes, so it takes two runs to do 6 negs. I use Pyrocat-HD (Sandy Kings formula) for most of my negatives, and in this case, I used it for all six.
After I finished the run, and let the negatives dry, I tossed them onto my light table, and was shocked to see that the first four negatives were not stained at all, but were silver-like - it almost looked like I had developed the negatives in XTOL, or something similar. The two negatives developed in the second run were fine - they had the characteristic brown color of a Pyrocat-HD developed negative.
I can't figure out how this happened - I mixed up both batches exactly the same, except the second batch was smaller in quantity (2 vs. 4 negs). Same tubes, same fixer, water stop, etc. *Nothing* was different.
The film I used was HP5+ - I've had very consistent results with this developer/film combination....
Can someone explain to me how these negatives have NO stain?
Thanks!
-klm.