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I just developed a roll of fomapan 400 (ro9 1+50, 11 mins) and fixed (Berfix 1+9, 4th use of this fixer mix).
When I looked at the film, the latter 3/4 of the roll was nicely developed and showed good detail, but the first 1/4 were dark, not totally black like the leader, but dark with few discernible details.
I had never seen this before and knew the fixer was borderline so I mixed a fresh batch and refixed.
3 frames or so now showed some detail. The remaining frames still relatively dark.
Can anyone shed light on what happened? All the missing shots were towards the beginning of the roll, but farther than I imagine could have been wrecked by fogging in loading.