Classic Film/Developer Combos

[mfogiel]

Apparently Silvermax is AGFA SCALA, which is actually better than APX100.

I tend to like the following:

APX100 @EI 64 Rodinal 1:45 10 mins
Tri X @EI 250 HC110 1:45 6 mins
Tri X @EI 1000 in DD-X 1+8 18 mins

 

[Stuart John]

I like APX100 in Rodinal 1:50 or 1:25.
TriX in Rodinal 1:50.
TriX in HC110 dil B
APX100 in D76 1:0
Fp4 in D76 1:1
HP5 D76 1:0

 

[HHPhoto]

Apparently Silvermax is AGFA SCALA,

Silvermax is not Agfa Scala. I've used both in direct comparison.
They are very similar, but not identical.

Cheers, Jan

 

[znapper]

6 minutes 30 seconds at 20 C ? Isn`t that a little bit long ? (dev chart recommends 4.5 minutes ...)

I think devchart use the Kodak recommendation, which is generally accepted as being too short.

My research online gave 6-7 minutes, so I did mine at 6:30, just dandy.

 

[haempe]

ADOX/Efke 25/50 in Beutler/Neofin Blue ... a classic.

 

[KenR]

For me Tmax400 in HC110 dilution h - 11 minutes at 68 degrees with aggitation at 1 minute intervals.

 

[znapper]

I don't shoot Tri-X at box speed much any more. I either pull it a stop (as described above) or shoot it at 800 and develop in Diafine. However, I do shoot TMax 400 at box speed and develop in HC 110 dil. h for 10 mins, with good results. I think the time for Tri-X at 400 would be about the same.

Well, it's not too far off, i use the info from http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/hc110/ which says:

Note about Kodak Tri-X Pan and Plus-X Pan: Kodak's published time for the new 400TX film in dilution B is 3 3/4 minutes at 68 F. That is too short to be practical, and I think they have made a serious mistake; it looks to me like the time for dilution A. I think they used the wrong dilution in their testing for both 400TX and 125PX.
Numerous photographers tell me that the correct time for 400TX is only a few percent shorter than for the old TX. Even Kodak told me the same thing – though they insist that they didn't mix up the dilutions.
However, it's generally agreed that Kodak's published time of 7.5 minutes for TX in dilution B was a bit long. Most photographers recommend about 6 to 7 minutes.
I want to thank Dick Dickerson and Silvia Zawadzki (retired from Kodak, part of the team that invented Xtol) for correspondence about this. They, too, think the wrong dilution was used in Kodak's tests. It will be interesting to see if the published time changes in future Kodak publications.