Quick update. I shot a roll just now with my Chinon CE-4 and it came out basically the same. I didn't have to examine it, it's like the others, no change there. Okay. That was developed by me getting the film into a dev tank in my darkroom and then all of the real development work, chemicals & rinsing, done in a normal room with normal lighting.
Took a second roll shot with my XR7 and did the development work in the darkroom. Film rewound, transfered to the development tank, developer step and stop bath step of development all done in the dark. Not a lot of fun but doable. I used a timer on my phone, with my phone hidden in the medicine cabinet, to tell me when to dump the developer and do a stop rinse. Here's how that came out;
This is the start of the roll. I took 12 shots of the car to tell me that this was where the roll starts, making sure there's no question about that.
This is the end of the roll. 12 shots of flowers in front of my house.
The film is still wet so there's some visible shiny spots to be ignored. I was not expecting this to have been the outcome and wasn't all that optimistic about this. But here we are. Somehow it seems like I'm getting light into the development tank on all of the rolls I've been processing since I moved. I really don't understand that. I'm screwing the lid on tight (without going crazy on the thing) and the cap is nearly water tight (these tanks aren't exactly perfect about that). I really want to get this figured out because doing this work in the dark isn't a lot of fun. Do I buy a new tank and see how that goes?