HC-110 Question

calebk: cheers for the heads up.. i will try 10s per minute for my next DO. i am aware of losing details but i do see some pictures which holds a good amount of details even when pushed 2 stops. i guess its just me and my metering problems. Still scouting for a bargain lightmeter to gauge roughly.
 
Paterson said:
HC110 is a grainy developer to begin with, It is a very concentrated liquid developer that is used to process film in a hurry, that’s why the development times are so short. HP 5 at 400 will be grainy with
this developer, if you rate your film at a higher ISO, say 1600 you are going to get a lot of grain, it will look similar to Kodak Recording film in effect. HC110 was used mostly by press photographers or the publications photo department when they had to process their films to meet tight deadlines, grain was not an issue due to the fact that it would be reproduced on news print.

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Hmm. Perhaps.

But HC-110 was the developer recommended by Ansel Adams in later versions of The Negative, it was the standard developer of Fred Picker, and widely popular among other Zone System adherents.

That's a crowd not famous for doing quick 'n dirty work to appear on newsprint.
 
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