how do you expose Eastman Double X (5222) ?

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Hi there, first of all, happy New Year!!! I hope you are having a blast.:D

Now, I would like to know how do you shoot your Eastman Double X film since it seems I can't get everything from it at ISO 250. I've heard people shooting it at ISO 1600 so I'm wondering how other people are rating this film.

thanks!
 
That seems odd. When I started I set the film speed at ISO 200. I then developed in D-76 stock for 6 min @ 20C. Had good negs.
 
Ive worked through 200 ft of it and shot it from 200-1600.

Its been a while since I shot it but I remember a lot of times out there were incorrect. Me personally I needed a lot of trial and error to get it right

I do remember though 1600 was souped in rodinal 1:100 for 2h.

 
There's a huge 48 page thread about shooting 5222 someplace in the film sub-forum. It's been ongoing for years. Find that and all your questions will be answered.

Jim B.
 
Been shooting rolls at ISO 320 and developing them in HC-110 for 11 min @ 68ºF. Like the results I've been getting so far. Plan on trying ISO 1600 with some D-76 in the next couple weeks.
 
5222 is a low contrast stock by design, as it is made to be printed onto printing stock that will pick up the contrast at that stage. If you're scanning, I would shoot it at 200-250 and pick up contrast in PP. If you're trying to wet print, you will probably want more contrast in the neg.
 
You can use XX from iso 100 (an ultra fine grain type developer) till iso 800 (in any speed enhancing type developer) with all very good results. In my Flickr stream you will see enough examples from it. A nice film BTW and cheap compared to bulk Tri-X 400.
 
some examples

iso 400 with D76 stock
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iso200 with Perceptol 1+2
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iso250 with Rodinal 1+50
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iso800 with LQN 1+4
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how do you shoot Eastman Double X (5222) ?

I shoot it at 400 and 1600. It is the only film I shoot for the past 6 months.
Lots of trial and error on my end too like above mentioned.

I develop in Rodinal 1:50 at 20C for:

11min @ 400
25min @ 1600

400 it looks really nice and gives good to high contrast with good tonality.
1600 it has extremely high contrast with little tonality.

I love both looks and shoot them side by side.
Have fun!

Ben
 
I love shoot the Eastman from 200-250-400 to 640

ussualy 200-250 I stand semi dev for 30-40 min
400 I ussualy stand semi dev for 45-50 min
and for 640 i stand semi dev for 60-70 min

I learn that its easily to blow the highlight with this film..

still, they are my fave film on street with Rodinal
 
When I was at the Brooks Institute in the 1970s we all shot SuperXX 4x5 sheet film.
Kodak rated as 200 but we were instructed to shoot it at 100.
Careful sensitometer and minimum time/maximum black, gamma testing by hundreds of students over the years confirmed.

To those who would protest that a rating of 100 produces one stop overexposure , the irascible M. Dobro would reply that a rating of 200 produces one stop underexposure. :)

The name's the same but I don't know that the 1970's emulsion is necessarily the same as today's.
 
I measured out XX with my densitometer and in a regular type developer XX is ISO 250 as indicated by Kodak.
 
Eastman 5222 Double-X is a motion picture film produced by Eastman since 1959 or thereabouts.
Super-XX sheet film was a different emulsion.
 
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