You can see age - at least 26 years old - and questionable storing (I had no idea how it was stored before I got it) took it's toll on the Kodak 400 MC. There is heavier grain, showed a bit of fogging/haze and obvious loss of sensitivity. It is meant to be ISO 400 but I shot it at 200 and it still looks like it could have done with one more stop exposure.
I have a few rolls left and will do that for the remaining rolls.
What does everyone think the dark banding is at the bottom of these? I'm posting these to learn how I messed up. IMO many problems with framing, exposure, focus, scanning, you name it, not my best work. The banding is the top thing I'm looking for thoughts from the braintrust on. Every frame on the roll had similar banding in the same place.
I shot every frame on this roll with the same lens and same filter. It's a mamiya 6 50mm f/4 with an ir720 filter. The film is Ilford SFX 200 rated at iso 6 developed with DD-X 1:4 for 10 mins at 20c. Is this me messing up and not having enough developer chemistry in the tank, so the film wasn't evenly developed? I've shot many rolls with this body and lens (>20), and have never noticed this sort of banding, so I don't think it's something with the lens or body, but I could be wrong. I've also never shot infrared, though I don't see how that makes a difference. It didn't "fat roll", I loaded and unloaded the camera in shade, and I loaded the roll in a double-zippered black dark bag onto a plastic Paterson reel.
Notice how it's just slight in this one, in the bottom right. I believe it would extend all the way across the frame if it were evenly exposed brightly along the bottom. mamiya6 + 50mm f/4 + sfx200 + ir720 filter at iso 6 by C C, on Flickr
