Tech Pan in 2019??

[Pherdinand]

hi all
How does one develop tech pan nowadays (lacking technidol)?

I got rodinal and diafine in house, and i have access to xtol and amaloco film developers.
I would like "normal" contrast level.

Any experience? And what EI with the developer you would suggest?

 

[Pentode]

You could start here:
https://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/Times/TechPan/techpan.html

Photographers’ Formulary makes their version of Technidol called TD-3.

I would shoot at EI 25 and either use TD-3 or a fairly diluted standard developer.
You might also have luck with stand developing as it tends to keep the contrast in check.

 

[Pentode]

You’ll Also find a fair amount of data on the massive dev chart listed under “discontinued films” as well as a couple of time/EI combinations on filmdev.org.

 

[charjohncarter]

Here is the way I do it:

John Carter
Kodak Technical Pan Rodinal
I was given three rolls of 35mm Kodak Technical Pan (expired 2002). I hunted around for a development scheme and finally settled on this. Mostly because I had Rodinal. I'm only posting in case some of you still have some in the fridge.



16 EI



Rodinal 1+150 for thirteen minutes



Agitate with 30 seconds initial inversions, then 3 inversions at 10 minutes,7 minutes,4 minutes, and 1minute counting down. (every 3 minutes)



Regular stop, fix and hypo.



I used 5ml of Rodinal in 750ml of H2O. That gives less than the recommended 10ml of Rodinal but the negatives really look great (full tone scale).



I had to figure out a curve profile as I felt (and still do) that the midtones were not right. Technical Pan is also a dust magnet; lots of healing tool. Even with Rodinal there is virtually no grain.



EDIT:



With this last roll I used a Yellow filter which made life easy to post process.

Kodak Technical Pan Rodinal by John Carter, on Flickr

There are more so to see click on the photo and look around. https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=8178676@N04&sort=date-taken-desc&text=technical&view_all=1

These were taken in the last two years.

 

[Pentode]

Those look really good, John.

 

[charjohncarter]

Thanks, here is the article that I found, and that I used to devise my development scheme.

http://photo-analogue.blogspot.com/2012/10/kodak-technical-pan.html

 

[Pherdinand]

Thanks. Did not know about td-3!
I have a few rolls in 120 format waiting in the fridge, probably i'll try rodinal the John Carter way fist😉
36 rolls just sold on the german ebay(not to me), for some 8-9$ a roll. Expired 20yrs ago 😱

 

[J enea]

i bought some td-3 and used it. i got what i called typical glycin rings in my highlights so i stopped using it. it did work, but i wasnt happy with the results.


best I have used since then has been C41 developer. cheap if you have it, easy and great results. 70 degrees 7.75 minutes ISO 32.