my 1st. diafine experience

[peter_n]

I pretty much go with Tri-X or Neopan 400 nowadays.

Oscar I saw the Neopan 400/Diafine shots you posted over on PN. I'm curious about your own sense of the contrast this combination provides. I'm impressed with the fine grain, but I do wonder about the "punch" that I definitely get with Neopan 400 and XTOL development.

 

[Nick R.]

HP5+ is one of my favorites too. I love the look in Diafine. You can only get about 800 out of it though, it needs more exposure than Tri-X to do well.

Tom

Tom,
Thanks for the reassurance. I Love that photo. Now I can't wait to get my 100' of hp5.
-Nick


FYI, I find it very convenient to buy two one gallon containers of distilled water from the supermarket and mix up a gallon of solutions A & B each. I don't store it in those containers, though --too flimsy.

 

[back alley]

remember nick, my hp5 was shot at 1600 against recommendation.

i think at 800 will be much better.

but hey, now i know...

joe

 

[taffer]

Oscar I saw the Neopan 400/Diafine shots you posted over on PN. I'm curious about your own sense of the contrast this combination provides. I'm impressed with the fine grain, but I do wonder about the "punch" that I definitely get with Neopan 400 and XTOL development.

Peter, I only tried Neopan 400 in Diafine... in fact Diafine is the only developer I use, so I try to stick with films which I like souped on it. I know that I could try some other developers and sure some of them could give outstanding combinations of film/dev, but with the summer already here I'd had a hard time trying to control chemical temperature, and I'm just plain lazy 🙂

So, currently it's the developer that dictates my film choice. Before that, when the lab processed my rolls, I used HP5+ and liked the results much better than when I processed it in Diafine.

But as Tom proves, you can use that combo for some outstanding shots, as always it's just a matter of personal choices.

As for those images, the ones from the park were quite hard to scan and adjust properly as they were quite overexposed. For more Neopan/Diafine examples, well, almost all my shots on the gallery come from that combination 🙂

Do you have some Neopan400/XTOL examples ?

 

[peter_n]

Thank you Oscar I will look in your gallery tonight. 🙂

I do have plenty of Neopan 400/XTOL examples in my gallery from a recent trip to Madrid. Most of the shots are NP400, a few are Acros 100 or NP1600. All were developed in XTOL (there are 20-25 of them total).