I have a love hate relationship with monobath development. On the one hand, I really like the idea of using a single solution to process film because of both simplicity and speed. But it can also be a temperamental process, with inconsistent results over time, which is kind of unacceptable. The quirkiness of the process makes sense, I guess, since when you use a monobath, you are balancing the rates of two competing processes -- development and fixing -- in a single solution. The developer has to act pretty quickly to convert the latent image to silver, before the fixer has a chance to do its job. Anyway, you will have surely noticed that there are bright areas in the sky in the image above that correspond to the location of the sprocket holes in the film. The presence of these hotspots (dense on the negative) suggests that my agitation pattern was a little off. Sigh. That said, my disappointment with the problems in the sky was at least partly outweighed by by my pleasure in how the image was rendered by the terrific little lens on the Contax T.
Looks like a pleasant enough weekend ahead for us in Dixie. Hope the light is good in your neck of the woods as well.
