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What's Your B&W Film & Developer Combo?


warren_allen1

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This depends on the final use of the negative. If I know I'm scanning, then the chromogenic films win hands down, and my favorite is XP-2, because it is also easy to work with in the wet darkroom. For coaxing speed from Delta 3200 and Fuji Neopan, I like DD-X. I have A-B'd DD-X and Xtol 1:1 and can't see any difference. A package of Xtol makes five liters of working solution, and by the time I get through it, I've had an Xtol failure, and have to discard the balance. My favorite for great tonality when printing in the darkroom is Tri-X in Rodinal. But if scan Tri-X developed in Rodinal, the grain seems to clump like crazy. I think this is the aliasing issue. Both DD-X and Rodinal come as liquid concentrates that are mixed for one shot use.
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<i>Point of Ayre, Isle of Man - Hasselblad 903SWC, TMax 100</i><br>

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In film I'm shooting mostly 6x6 format now, and I prefer TMax 100 or Delta 100. I've

standardized on XTOL (and its workalike, Patterson FX-50). I usually boost the ASA to 200

as I've found that gives me a gamma curve I like better.

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Godfrey

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