How do you make HP5 sing out loud?

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

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Cheers - John
 
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.
 
Griz said:
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.
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Those look very nice
 
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.

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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.

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Thanks for sharing your knowledge and pictures.
 
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.
 
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
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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
 
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...
 
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