It’s been a good day today. Not only did I have the time to take an outing with my camera(s), the weather was also perfect too. This sort of alignment of the fates is a rarity!
I decided to take a day trip to Lincoln. Lincoln is a nice city to wander around with plenty to see and photograph, and it has the added bonus of only being about an hour’s drive away.
The weather forecast had given the impression of clear blue skies which, while better in many regards to flat grey skies, can also be a little uninteresting, but I was blessed with blue skies full of streaks of thin high-altitude cloud, meaning I got the benefit of the good light with the bonus of interesting textures.
I managed to shoot three-and-a-half rolls of film – two-and-a-half colour, and a roll of B&W.
Although it was a great day, there was one small hiccup – I forgot to change the ASA dial on my Olympus OM-10 and shot the entire roll of Agfa APX 100 at 400ASA. This normally wouldn’t be a problem as I’ve pushed film on many occasions before (even if this time it was accidental), but it seems there is very little data out there on pushing Agfa APX 100 beyond 200ASA.
It looks like I can develop it for 25 minutes(!) in Rodinal 1+50, but there are no times for Ilfotec DD-X. There are calculations that can be used to get a rough idea of how long to push films, but I prefer to use tried and tested methods – I think there will be some nice photos on the roll and I don’t want to ruin them with ham-fisted experimentation.
Other alternatives include stand or semi-stand development (but, again, it’s not something I’ve done before, and I’m a bit worried about maintaining the temperature to avoid bromide drag), and splashing out on a bottle of Ilford HC (or HC-110, or one of the other variants) – which also has a recipe for pushing the film two stops. Or rather for pushing Kentmere 100 by two stops (I believe they are the same film stock).
Anyway, I’ll be sure to let my reader know what I decide to do and how I fare. Wish me luck!
Olympus OM-10, E-Zuiko 35mm f/2.8 & Kodak Ultramax. Lab developed, home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Taken on 22 December 2024
Steel City Snapper photography 
Seems like semi stand can help in this situation with AGFA. I used Rodinal today for semi stand, just finished it with agitation after every 20 min. Good luck !
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Thanks Viktor. Yes, I think this is the route I’m most likely to take having considered the options.
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Hello (again!), I’m pretty sure that the (new!) APX is the same as Kentmere 100 so any advice on that should hold true. Not too long ago I used at roll of FP4 as if it were HP5, including the development times, and all was well. In my experience B/W is pretty forgiving stuff – I wouldn’t stress too much over it!! I remember reading once of a well known photographer (maybe Robert Frank) but I can’t remember, when asked how long he developed his films for replied as long as it took him to smoke a cigarette!
I only recently did my first ever stand development as was amazed with the results, that was with Foma100 as I recall. Again I wouldn’t stress at the temp too much, I just stood mine in a 3 inch deep water bath, started at just over 20 degrees and by the finish was 18 something!! Never had any Bromide drag that I could see!
Go for it!! 🙂
Cheers Andy
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Thanks Andy. Yep, I think semi-stand looks like the best option. I’m planning on shooting some more of the film, rated the same, through the same camera (and meter), and then testing the development out on that first before chancing my efforts the Lincoln photos. I am feeling more confident about my chances (he says, tempting fate…).
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I’m wishing you luck!
And now I need to wish myself luck, as last night I shot a roll of Portra 800 in my XD5. Since it was night shooting, I just bumped the ISO for metering to 1600–it’s negative film so should handle it OK. But when I finished up I realized it got bumped to 3200, oops.
And today? Well, I loaded a roll of ColorPlus since I was doing daylight shooting. But I didn’t notice until most of the roll was done that I had taken the exposure mode out of Aperture Priority (my preferred) and into Manual for quicker loading. Big oops especially since the shutter speed was set to a measly 1/30! Now I’m really hoping that “negative film’s wide latitude” will save my ass, or at least give me an okay start for Photoshop fixing!
I won’t know how it goes until I get the film back…
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Ooof! Portra 800 – that’s practically like shooting spun gold! I was going to go on to say that at least the Colorplus is cheaper, but that’s not saying much with the price of film these days!
I shot some Colorplus on holiday last year and rated it at different speeds on the same roll depending on the scene (I was using my Olympus Trip 35, so the ASA dial was largely the limit of any manual control). Those all came out really nice, so hopefully your inadvertent overexposure will result in usable pictures.
I wish you luck!
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Got the scans back, and everything came ok, whew.
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