bradley_thomas Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 I am an amature photographer. I have developed Tri-x a couple of times on my own but rely on photo labs to develop most of my film. I love to push Tri-x and have even pushed it to 3200 for extra cotrast. I want to know if you recommend any other film that offers more contrast than Tri-x. I don't care about grain or anything else. I just want more contrast! IAny recommendations? Also if you were to list these films from most contrast to least what order would you list them? Neo pan 3200Delta 100Tri-XPlus-XT-Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradley_thomas Posted June 20, 2008 Author Share Posted June 20, 2008 Please also add HP5 to the list above when ranking the films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCL Posted June 20, 2008 Share Posted June 20, 2008 Kodak Litho film probably has the highest contrast....everything is either black or white. In modern films, XP2 shows good contrast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank.schifano Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 How much contrast do you want? Take a film, any film, expose it normally and then subject it to a 1 or 2 stop push development. That should do it for ya. Slower films are generally more contrasty than faster films, so you might want to try this with something around 100 ISO. Honestly, excessive contrast isn't my thing. Printing a normal contrast negative onto a grade 5 or equivalent paper is off the charts for me. If you are scanning the film, then it doesn't matter because you can do anything you want in post processing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willscarlett Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Try Rollei Ortho 25. Orthochromatic film is very contrasty to begin with, but once I had a roll developed in HC-110 diluted 1:12. I can get a continuous tone print with the contrast filter at 0 and when I turn it up to 5, it's basically black and white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_jay12 Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Try Ilford's FP4; 125iso film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay_de_fehr Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Stephen called it, I think. Graphic Arts or document type films are designed for max. contrast, but can be tamed with special developers and processing techniques. They are incredibly slow (EI 3-12 typically), but incredibly fine grained as well. Most are plain, blue-sensitive, but some are orthochromatic, and a few document films are panchromatic, so you have a variety of spectral sensitivities to choose from. Freestyle Photo's APHS Ortho is a good film, and very cheap. Good luck, and have fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrydressler Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Shoot Ilford PanF+ at 200 and develop it in Rodinol 1-25 for 15 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randall ellis Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 EFKE films and Ilford PanF+ tend to be quite contrasty when exposed and developed using standard times. Any black and white film can be made to be more contrasty by exposing for less time and developing for more time than the rated box speed and development times. The more you go this route the more contrast you'll get. A good starting point would be doubling the box speed and adding %15 to the development time - this should give you quite a bit more contrast. If you just adjust the film speed but not the development time you won't get overly good results, at least in my experience. - Randy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_shiu Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 Hi, try Tmax 100 in Dektol. There is also a film called Technical Pan. Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User_502260 Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 There was a film called Technical Pan. It was discontinued in all sizes some time ago. If you donlt need the extra speed then a document type film will give you high contrast more easily. Kodak Imagelink HQ film would do a good job and is still available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff_drew4 Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 More contrast = orange or red filter at time of exposure. Also consider Kodak C41 chromogenic B&W if you are going to have labs do your processing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike dixon Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 In general, the slower the film speed, the higher the contrast. The most inherently contrasty film I've used is PanF+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrydressler Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 Jon Shiu I pushed some Plus-X in Dektol a few years ago interesting stuff.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bljkasfdljkasfdljskfa Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 "inherently contrasty film I've used is PanF+" underdevelop it by a minute and its good to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolf_rainer_schmalfuss Posted July 1, 2008 Share Posted July 1, 2008 Hi to ALL, the highest contrast is obtained with the legendary lithographic films. The offerings for photographers in recent years are reduced. Often lith film producers offering only sheet films. Therefore, it is pleased to notice that the lith film fan community can buy under the name ROLLEI SUPERGRPAHIC ATO 2.1 now fresh from a production, lith films in 35mm cartridges, and 60mm roll film. The market introduction is done now for several days in Europe. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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