Cross-processing 7266 at home

[sancast]

Hi, dudes! First all, let me introduce myself. My name is Andre, I'm from Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, I'm a newbie in developing and I don't speak English very well.

Well... I've processed a roll of 7266 super 8 at home, using D76, in 10 minutes (temp about 25°C), but the result wasn't very well. Now, I'm shooting a short movie with the same film stock and wanna developed it at home too, but I want a better image quality, with much contrast and detail.

This is the first attempt, that I don't like. http://www.vimeo.com/1155137

What do you think that I'm done wrong and what I have to do now, to get a better result? Shake more? Much or less developing time?

Thanks a lot!

[agingeri]

Part of the problem is your transfer. Negative looks pretty bad unless you get a good transfer made of it.

Your film also looks pretty low-contrast. Tri-X loses about a stop of sensitivity when it's cross-processed, so if you shoot it at the rated ISO of 200, you have to approximately double your developing time.

I did a couple rolls of Tri-X a few months ago, and I wound up developing in D-76 (mixed 1:1 with water) for 19 minutes, agitating for 10 seconds every 30 seconds. This gave pretty good results: http://www.exgfilms.com/videos/7266-hand-1.mov (this is a bad transfer too, but the contrast looks pretty good)

http://www.exgfilms.com/?p=299 goes into more detail about my process.

[sancast]

Thanks for the tips, agingeri.

I know that my "transfer", made with the miniDV camcorder, is too bad. When I've project the negative, it has so much details and contrast than this.

I will try now more minutes in the developing. Do you remember the temperature of the solution, when you've processed by 19 minutes?

Agitating 10 seconds every 30 seconds is much than I've done too. I guess I agitated 5 seconds every 30.

Thanks again.