Pushing in xtol - advice needed

[chris91387]

I'm looking to shoot Neopan 400 at 800 and develop in Xtol. Can anyone Recommend a good starting point for a development time?

Thanks.

 

[craygc]

Try looking here Neopan 400
By the way, this film even pushes to 1600 very nicely 😀

 

[Keith]

I've pushed Neopan to 1600 with Xtol and the results were excellent ... from memory I used it at 1+1 for twelve minutes at twenty degrees. Ten or eleven minutes should be enough for 800 I'd think.

 

[Benjamin]

Hi Keith, I'm planning on pushing HP5+ to 1600 in the XTOL.

Basically I'm just wondering if the the amount of agitation change when push processing?

Or should one just follow the standard of 30 seconds of continuous agitation after immersion, followed by ten seconds per minute?

 

[mr_phillip]

I settled on 11 mins @ 20°C, with continuous agitation for the first minute, then 10 seconds per minute thereafter.

 

[Bradd Cluckey]

Benjamin,

If you are using the times on the massive dev chart (linked above) it will be noted if another system of agitation is necessary. Otherwise you can assume that you can indeed just use standard agitation.

Cluckey.

P.S. I think so anyway 😉

 

[le vrai rdu]

loved xtol 1+3 from 400 to 1600 ; didn't tried farther 😱

 

[Keith]

Hi Keith, I'm planning on pushing HP5+ to 1600 in the XTOL.

Basically I'm just wondering if the the amount of agitation change when push processing?

Or should one just follow the standard of 30 seconds of continuous agitation after immersion, followed by ten seconds per minute?

Hi Benjamin,

From memory when I pushed HP5 to 1600 I agitated for the first thirty seconds then two inversions per minute on the minute for the rest of the time ... I think HP5 is superb at 1600 with Xtol 1+1.

 

[chris91387]

thanks everyone.

i'm going to shoot a boring grey card, color chart and black and white terry cloth towels at 400 with N processing and 800 with +1 (whatever that turns out to be) processing. i'll post the results at some point. gotta give back to fellow rff'ers ya know.

- chris

 

[Benjamin]

Keith and Bradd Cluckey thank you for the replies and yes, I do indeed use their charts.

They seem pretty on the button.

Benjamin