Medium format film photography. Kodak Ektar 100 developed in B&W

Medium format film photography. Kodak Ektar 100 developed in B&W

i combined two new for me techniques in this batch – semi-stand and processing C-41 film in B&W chemistry. what prompted me to develop color negatives (it was Kodak Ektar 100) with black and white chemistry??? i have no idea, may be a desire to experiment with film and Ektar was exposed more than year ago and waited for an attention in my fridge.
the process of this developing was very simple – actually same as B&W negatives developing. during the way of my “home education” i learned to be very accurate with temperature, measures and attentiveness in agitation. more then this – i decided to make it semi-stand – one hour of developing that can help to achieve the better tonal range and confidence that this long process will be less aggressive to the foreign emulsion.
the result I got was dirty and grimy – i read about in forums when i did the home works about this not native process, but somewhere inside my was hope for a miracle… :-) and a miracle happened when i started the scanning process. you can see the results below – clean and crispy, sharp and toned well scans of 12 frames.
a few words about photography gear, soup and times i used. Hasselblad 500cm with Planar 80mm f/2.8 attached. Kodak Ektar color negative 120 film. 2 minutes of soaking in a clean 20C water. 1+100 Rodinal (one shoot) developer – one hour with one turn in the middle. one minute agitation in a clean 20C water and finally 8 min of fixing in Agfa Fix-AG 1+7. 2 minutes of the wetting agent at the end.
one of my next posts will be about the semi-stand developing process and why i loved to use it for my home developing – stay tuned or better – make a subscription to my blog.

more from this roll of film :
http://www.victorbezrukov.com/semi-stand-developing-c-41-film-in-bw-chemistry/