Stand development: Pan-F in D76

[Stephanie Brim]

Yeah. Some of them look rather interesting, at least to me. The shots of the Schwinn and the shots in the garage are by far my favorites of the bunch.

 

[titrisol]

Yup, the good-ol'Schwinn 😉

 

[kaiyen]

The main reason for doing stand or semi-stand development is to bring out the shadows without completely blowing the highlights. /QUOTE]

Actually, another big, big reason is for edge effects. What you're talking about is compensation, and is technically possible with any developer that is diulted sufficiently (which isn't nec. all that much, BTW). Edge effects are the increased micro-contrast as developer moves from areas of high to low density (or the other way around?) without actual tank agitation. A&T give a much better description in the FDC, of course.

That's the main reason why people tend to use acutance developers for stand development.

I'm glad that you're getting some interesting results from your experiments.

allan

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Yep...still getting streaking, but much less. 1:3 for a slightly shorter time, perhaps the 50 minutes I previously tried 1:1, should work. I'll be doing it again to make sure, but not until I can get some Tri-X since that's what I used for the 1:3 test. May as well keep the rest of this test done with the same film and Tri-X is much easier to get ahold of than Pan-F.

I got my Rodinal, so I may or may not go ahead and do some semi-stand in that. I figure that I'll shoot up some rolls for now (three or four, hopefully) and then develop them all at the same time in different ways. I could also do another kind of test now that I have two tanks: take one roll of film with similar shots with similar contrast, cut it in half, develop in two tanks in two different ways. May do this with my last roll of Tri-X. At the moment I have Neopan in the camera...and THAT is going in Rodinal at recommended times.

 

[kaiyen]

RJ,
BTW - that really is a phenomenal, succint post of yours in #16.

allan

 

[Stephanie Brim]

Yeah...RJ is why I like posting here. Heh.

 

[kaiyen]

Someone else posting is why you like posting? That's kind of like saying the reason why you talk is because you like to listen. That's an interesting way of appreciating someone else's work, but whatever floats your boat.

🙂

allan

 

[Stephanie Brim]

RJ's (and others like him) constructive criticisms and comments help me a lot. You have to remember that, when compared to a lot of people here, I'm just starting out in this. Slightly over a year's worth of experience in developing my own film is nothing when compared with lots of the others. Experience from all sides can be an invaluable resource.

 

[Trius]

RJ- ... it all makes sense, even though I'll need to re-read it (it's late for me) to digest it all. A minor in chemistry helps... thanks! Pretty much as I thought.

Earl

 

[kaiyen]

Stephanie,
I knew what you meant, I was just kidding around.

allan