Camera Talk

I used D76 (because that's the developer that I have free access to), 1+1 at 20C and followed the MDC recommendations for development time, which was 14 minutes. Should I have used the stock mixture instead? That would give me a recommended development time of 9.5 minutes. If you think that will help, I'll try the film again and follow that combination.

Stock D-76, and the film pulled (at ISO 200) would be the most you could reasonably do to get finer grain. Try about 7.5 or 8 minutes dev time at 20 C. Agitate all of first minute, then one inversion each minute. Water stop should be OK.

I do not really know how much this would help since I have never used that film. But it should make a difference.

Nancy, I don't know if you have this chart but this is from Freestyle and I noticed that the times on it are taken directly from the Kentmere page. I found that when I used it they seemed a little thin so I added 10% to the times and they seemed right on.
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/film-development-chart

I'm wondering if the camera meter is underexposing. Have you compared against a known camera metering a blank wall?

Thanks Julio, and Larry, I will try your recommendations, I've got a few more rolls of the stuff in my fridge!

And Mike, I thought the metering may be off, but I haven't compared it to another camera; I'll try that too.

I'd just like her to be able to use the camera and get good results, otherwise she'll never come back from the dark side (digital!).

We are now the Dark side. We use Film. LOL

How can there be a "Dark Side", when all we do is capture light?
PF