Results: Neopan 1600 @800 in Rollei RHS

[hans voralberg]

Inspired by JPlouse Neopan @ 800 in DDX thread and Telenous instruction on developing this configuration in RHS I went ahead, give it a try and here are the results.

Lens used is Canon 50/1.2 LTM
Neopan 1600 @ 800 in Rollei RHS 1+9 for 6 mins, 20C, 30 sec initial agitation, 10 sec/min after that, quite vigorous twirling, 3 turns in each direction.

Properly exposed: tight grain, sharp enough for me. Tonality is ok I think.

Indoor:

Backlight:

Slightly overexpose: ~1/2 stop and pulled back make grain more prominent

This is not a scientific test 😛 Just want to share my experience, as I don't see many people using RHS and so it might help somebody about to experiment with this combo.

 

[JPSuisse]

Hi Hans Yes, that was me. Were all these shots made on the same roll of film? To me, the first 2 look quite good. The second 2 are a bit grainy for my taste. Neopan 1600 seems to react very strongly to certain developers and then has some really strong grain. My next posts will be my 125 Plus-X pictures developed in DD-X. Amazingly good tonality... But that's still coming... JP

 

[Nokton48]

First two look really good, just about like what I'm getting with Presto 1600 and DDX.
Canon F1.2 has a good look to it, too!

 

[hans voralberg]

All are on the same roll of film, the last 2 is a bit underexposed and pulled back up in PP hence the grain.