I developed some Ilford PANF Plus ISO 50 negatives yesterday. I don’t know what happened, but they are a big disappointment. Maybe it’s that I started the roll in July and it’s now October. Maybe the tap water affected the chemistry. Or maybe it’s just that I took pictures on overcast days or low-light conditions. Or maybe it’s my new orange filter that I used on some of the pictures. The negatives look washed out, they are not contrasty at all. They look like they are underdeveloped because the frame numbers are pretty light. I mixed the developer (D-76) yesterday, same as always, and made sure all the chemicals were the optimum 20 degrees Celcius before I started developing the negatives. I followed directions for agitating, continuously for the first 10 seconds and then 10 seconds out of every following minute. The only thing that maybe would have helped is if I had inverted the tank rather than just rotating the reel when agitating… although I doubt that was the problem. This was my first roll of ISO 50 film in the camera (Nikon EM) so maybe the meter is a little off. We’ll see when I develop the next roll of Fuji Velvia… hopefully that turns out better.