Not a HC-110 virgin anymore and some thoughts

[charjohncarter]

Karthiks, I agree with Vieri about the pre wash. I did at first but now no. Here is one taken early morning with a seleium cell meter onboard my Agfa Optima IIs. I did Ansel method here on the new TriX.

 

[visiondr]

I've taken a shining to 35mm Neopan 400 @ 400 ISO in HC-110, Dilution H. It makes a beautiful negative with a broad tonal range and creamy highlights.

 

[karthiks]

The dev times for the two emulsions are different. With HC110 dil B at 68º F there is a minute's difference in dev time between Tri-X 320 and 400. You just can't use Ansel's time recommendations for Tri-X 400 since he used 320. That's all I was saying!🙂

Ahhh I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for taking time to explain it to me 🙂

Karthiks, I agree with Vieri about the pre wash. I did at first but now no. Here is one taken early morning with a seleium cell meter onboard my Agfa Optima IIs. I did Ansel method here on the new TriX.

The shot looks good but somehow I can't see much of black or is it my monitor's fault? What times do you use?

I've taken a shining to 35mm Neopan 400 @ 400 ISO in HC-110, Dilution H. It makes a beautiful negative with a broad tonal range and creamy highlights.

The second shot is quite lovely 🙂

 

[charjohncarter]

The shot looks good but somehow I can't see much of black or is it my monitor's fault? What times do you use?

That part of compensating and stand development. You control the highlights and give maximum shadows WITH detail. This isn't pushing.

 

[karthiks]

That part of compensating and stand development. You control the highlights and give maximum shadows WITH detail. This isn't pushing.

Ahhh I get it. 🙂 something like a HDR for film 😀