Well I've had another bash, much darker negs this time, but there are still light areas and lots of lovely grey tones between, they're drying now and I'm looking forward to seeing how they scan tomorrow.
I used the DD-X at 1+6 again, but tried an N+ development and let it run for 15 mins, with 40 seconds on the stop and 5 mins for the fix. The 10 washes went a lot easier now the magnet doesn't fall off the spindle....
Oh, I set the bath so it keeps everything at 21 degrees as advised by the manual in expectation of a drop to 20 when pouring in the chemicals, does anyone else do that??
The scene had about 6-7 stops range, I measured the darkest area, where I'd want some very deep shadow detail, placed that at zone I ( adjusted from Zone II for scanning purposes ) and metered zone V. That left about 2-3 stops to the highlight at the most. I underexposed by one stop in anticipation of doing a longer development. At f32 was metering 4-5s which became 20-25s with compensation for 0.9ND, which with reciprocity was around the 1m 20s mark, which worried me a bit, seemed long... does all that seem like a reasonable work-flow?
I've a faint suspicion they might be too dark, I think the shadows, shadow detail and mid-tones look like they'll be great, but overall high tones will be a bit OTT, maybe 14 mins next time? I'll post up a raw scan when it's done and you can give me an appraisal, your feedback on the development would be most helpful.