Tri X film dveloper combination

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Both of these are Tri-X at 3200, souped in rodinal
 
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
marke said:
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
I haven't actually tried it; I feel that Tmax 3200 or Delta 3200 both give MUCH better results for speeds over 400.

Depends on what you want. Some people like the high contrast look of pushed Tri-X. I want some shadow detail, which pushed 400 films just don't have much of. There's no 'right' on that, depends on your artistic style.
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You just reminded me of something that I've been doing differently lately. When developing Tri-X shot at EI 1600, I've brought my agitation down to two very easy inversions every two minutes. I think it's kicking down the contrast a bit than my old way of 3 inversions every minute.
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marke said:
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
marke said:
You just reminded me of something that I've been doing differently lately. When developing Tri-X shot at EI 1600, I've brought my agitation down to two very easy inversions every two minutes. I think it's kicking down the contrast a bit than my old way of 3 inversions every minute.
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Have you had any trouble with uneven development? I just cannot seem to make gentle agitation schemes work for me. I have tried several times over the years with different films and developers and every d--m time I get severely uneven development, with the top and bottom edges of every frame on the roll denser than the center areas. Sometimes its so bad that I can't even make it look good in Photoshop by selectively darkening the offending areas. Tri-X shows much finer grain with gentle agitation but the uneven development destroys the images...so I just deal with the grain, which isnt bad in any case, but still it frustrates to know it could be better but I can't get it to work.
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Chriscrawfordphoto said:
marke said:
Chriscrawfordphoto said:
Have you had any trouble with uneven development? I just cannot seem to make gentle agitation schemes work for me. I have tried several times over the years with different films and developers and every d--m time I get severely uneven development, with the top and bottom edges of every frame on the roll denser than the center areas. Sometimes its so bad that I can't even make it look good in Photoshop by selectively darkening the offending areas. Tri-X shows much finer grain with gentle agitation but the uneven development destroys the images...so I just deal with the grain, which isnt bad in any case, but still it frustrates to know it could be better but I can't get it to work.
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Nothing uneven that I've noticed, Chris. I do complete inversions, rotating 360 degrees, then tap twice.
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charjohncarter said:
TriX at 250 in HC-110 using Ansel Adam's compensating method:


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I'll tell you what I do because it isn't exactly the recipe of Ansel. Here it is: 4ml of US HC-110 syrup to make 500ml: TriX at 250, 30 seconds initial agitation then agitate every 5 minutes 3 inversions, total time 30 minutes, 68 degrees (20 C). After fix and clear normally. It works great for high contrast scenes. But even with normal scenes it is good.
 
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Xtol 1:3 also works well at either 400 or 1600. Semi-stand from Film Developer's Cookbook and multiply the time given in the chart at the end of the book by 1.8. Agitate for the first minute and then two inversions every six minutes. That seems to tame the highlights and give good shadow development.
 
I enjoy tri-x in microphen exposed @ 800 there are examples in my Flickr of it, I used the dev chart guidelines for the agitation and times.
 
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