How do you make HP5 sing out loud?

[Clint Troy]

I like HP5 in Ilfosol-3 as well, although that developer is mainly recommended for medium speed films.

Yes. And yet, it's in Ilfosol-3 that it gives me the best contrast of all the developers I've tried.
Ilfosol-3 is highly potent that's for sure.

 

[Calzone]

Yes. And yet, it's in Ilfosol-3 that it gives me the best contrast of all the developers I've tried.
Ilfosol-3 is highly potent that's for sure.

Which dilution do you like?

Cal

 

[Clint Troy]

Which dilution do you like?

Cal

I really go with Ilford's recomendation: 1:9

 

[sepiareverb]

Autumn here for us in the southern hemisphere but still high 20's (Celsius that is). We had a summer of extreme weather. The hottest day on record 46.5 degrees C. and some terrible bushfire weather. Then lots of rain. Can't pick it 🙂

Cheers - John

Extremes here this winter as well- and barely any snow which is unusual, tho now two winters running. We had days in every month in the 50's F / 10's C I think, and after having a late storm which dropped 10" of snow two weeks ago we've been back to nearly 60F and then yesterday another snow. Wacky.

 

[Calzone]

I really go with Ilford's recomendation: 1:9

Thanks.

Cal

 

[Griz]

First try with Xtol and HP5+

First try with Xtol and HP5+

Not sure about them "singing out loud", but for a first try, I was pretty happy with the negatives:











Pentax KX, M28 f2.8
Xtol 1+1, 12 minutes @ 68F, scanned on a Epson 3200 flatbed. Still a rookie at this scanning thing, so any tips would be appreciated.

 

[Johnmcd]

HP5 pushed to 1600 - 11 mins Microphen @ 20 deg. C
SQ A 80mm f2.8 @ 1/30th sec

Cheers - John

 

[Matus]

I will soon try HP5+ with Pyrocat HD. I did that in the past, but got problems with pinholes which never happened with any other film I developed. After long discussion over at APUG I decided to try the same process, but with alkaline fixer instead. I will report the results here once I get the films developed and scanned (I have exposed 2 rolls at EI 200 already).

From what was shown here I really like the results Highway got with D76 1:3. I ill try that once I will get through my XTOL batch.

 

[gsgary]

Not sure about them "singing out loud", but for a first try, I was pretty happy with the negatives:











Pentax KX, M28 f2.8
Xtol 1+1, 12 minutes @ 68F, scanned on a Epson 3200 flatbed. Still a rookie at this scanning thing, so any tips would be appreciated.

Those look very nice

 

[Griz]

Those look very nice

Thank you! These were mid-afternoon shots, I'm planning to go back for a morning session soon.

Griz

 

[Sylvester]

HC-110 with the dilution for the 10min time (I don't remember the letter...)...
With some good post-process, I get to this:

Salomé Leclerc par ChatSylvestre, sur Flickr
or this:

130402013.jpg par ChatSylvestre, sur Flickr

 

[Steve George]

I don't shoot a lot of HP5 but when I do I tend to rate at 250 just because I find it more to my taste than when I rate it at 400. Don't know about singing out loud but I like the tonality.

 

[visualbassist]

hp5 in lc29 1+19


http://goo.gl/JSeop

 

[OurManInTangier]

Some people seem to wonder about my term 'sing,' I suppose if I had some examples of what I used to achieve with HP5 you might understand quite how badly I managed with it - or developing in general.

The advice, examples and help here has improved my lot greatly...though whether my following examples are choir-like is another matter.

HP5 at E.I. 200 in HC-110 dilution B, 20c for five minutes. Five initial inversions followed by three more every minute.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and pictures.

 

[gsgary]

Not sure if it sings out loud, Ilfosol3 6mins 30 seconds

 

[Biggles]

Just got my first roll of the stuff back from the lab. Holy crap.

Lens was a 40mm Summicron.

 

[gsgary]

HP5 in DDX

 

[Bruno Gracia]

I've just bought 50 rolls of hP5 in macrodirect.de and D76 and R09... let's see, I've never used HC110, is it better than Rodinal? Somewhere between D76 and Rodinal?

Thanks.

 

[varchs]

I am mainly use bulk loaded HP5+ as it is the first film that I was suggested to use by my mentor Yorgos(my first internship employer and a very good friend of mine, unfortunately he passed away early), but I have also tried a couple of TMAX400 (awesome black) and some(~20rolls)RolleiRetro400 quite nice but I have mostly underexposed them(by wrong Aperture-priority AE settings on my Canon EOS3) and they came out quite retro looking (I think I will give it a second chance in the near future with the ZI and sunny16).

two generetions

ZI ZM Biogon 35/2
sunny16 (@250, f11 hazy sun)
HP5+, Ilfosol3 1+14 11' (agitating first 30", 2 tank flips/min -- Yorgos' process)

is seems that I overexpose... ;-)


On sunny16, I am inspired by Mr. Abrahamsson's story

 

[craygc]

A selection of HP5 here. Most of which is developed in DDX in an EI range of 250 ~ 1600. Although I really like DDX, I would put more emphasis on post work than developer to get what you want...