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I ventured out today with Mollie after a hectic week of drinking, eating, and celebrating with friends and family over the holidays. It was all very enjoyable but I think both of us needed to get out in the woods for a while. For her part Mollie had a great time in Holme Fen. It rained so hard this morning when we got up she declined our daily morning walk and so by noon was ready for a romp. She quickly got up to her old tricks of jumping, spyhopping, exploring and chasing about the bracken and fallen logs.   Blog Post Cover Image For me this was more about some experimentation which I will get to shortly. The day was not really made for photography and the light incredibly variable with almost clear skies when we arrived to overcast to some clearing and intermittent clouds during the 3 hours or so we were out.  I wanted to have a good demonstration of what box speed on a film means and how this may not always be the best way to shoot film. This came up as a question on ...

Introduction This first section is meant as background to justify why I chose to do things the way I do. You can skip ahead to the developer mixing section to get to the gist of the article. In an earlier post I describe the re-purposing of Cibachrome drum s for 4x5 and 8x10 sheet film development. One-Shot Developer Part of that was my determination to use HC-110 developer as one-shot. I have come to understand that I am not a consistent enough user of film developer to keep bottles of it lying around. The result is that I worry about whether the developer is fresh.  I do not want to risk my images on possibly expired/old developer. You then get into the problem of tracking of how much film has been through the developer and possibly extending developing times depending on how much film has been through the developer. Eventually I realized there is a certain amount of developer that is used each time and so there isn’t really an idea of ‘saving developer’. This all lead m...