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Diluting a developer from stock will increase sharpness, at the cost of a slight increase in grain. As for Xtol I haven't used it but I'm assuming dilution would have the same effect on Xtol as other developers.

I'm not an expert or anything of the sort but, I think the film wasn't bleach and/or fixed properly. More than likely it was a lab mistake not a film defect...,but I dunno as I said be before I'm not expert but maybe someone else on here(like Ron Mowrey) can help.

Jeff,<br><br>

 

I haven't personally used the Wal-Mart off brand, but, all the off brand films I've used say <a href="http://www.ferraniait.com/"><face="Georgia"><size:14">Ferrania</a><face="Georgia"> on the negatives. I thought the quality of the images looked fine.

Aside from the temperature problem already pointed out, are you sure you fixed your film properly??

Gonzalo,

 

It does not, I went to fujifilm's website and looked at the data sheet for Across and the only sizes it comes in is 36exp for 35mm and 12exp for 120(6x6cm).

Carl,<br><br>

 

I checked <a href="http://www.digitaltruth.com/"><face="Georgia"><span style="-size:14">Digital Truth</span></></a><face="Georgia"> and they have a time of 4.5 mins for tri-X rated at 200 and developed in HC-110 at dilution E.

Hi Edgard,<br><br>

 

I looked on <a href="http://www.digitaltruth.com/"><face="Georgia"><span style="-size:14">Digital Truth</span></a><face="Georgia"> and they say to give the film 14 mins in Rodinal 1:50 at 20°C...,thats two reliable sources giving you the same time, so go with 14 mins. If your still in doubt, split the difference, develop for 15 mins. Personally I would go with 14 mins. GoodLuck

Sounds like an interesting film to cross process...,anyone know where to get a roll or two??

OK..,the answer I gave in my first response was 6.5 min at 68°. The way I came to this conclusion was I compared this film to another(at which time I thought to be 400iso), the times between these films was off by only half a minute. So I found the times for an iso of 200 and added .5 mins. But I later found out that this film was actually a 200 speed film, rendering my unscientific result useless. But I will take the offensive and say that reducing the development time by 20% might not yeild a good neg. <a href="http://www.digitaltruth.com/devchart.html"><face="Georgia"><span style="size:14">The Massive Development Chart</span></a><face="Georgia"> on <a href="http://www.digitaltruth.com/"><face="Georgia"><span style="size:14">DigitalTruth</span></a><face="Georgia"> gives tri-X rated at 400 6.75 mins in stock D76...,20% of 6.75 mins is 5mins 40secs. In the .pdf file for D76 on kodak's websites says "NOTE:Tanks development times shorter than 5 minutes may produce poor uniformity" and 5mins 40secs is close enough to 5 mins that you might not get satisfactory results. Personally I think the reason there are no times for tri-X rated at 200 and developed in stock D76 is becuase it's not recommended. Sorry for confusing you even more but, maybe theres someone else on this forum that can help you.

Wow I really like that..,I think I might try it sometime. One question though, did you use a filter on your lens? thanks

For tri-X in stock D76 I would develop the film for 6.5 min at 68°.

Mixing chemicals in the light is perfectly fine.

Thanks for all the answers and comments, it's definatly appriciated.

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Rowland, I heard that these chemicals(C-41 in paticular) were carcinogenic through a post here on <a href="http://www.photo.net/"><span style="font-size:14">photo.net,</span></font></a> here is link, <a href="http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0022CW"><span style="font-size:14">Home C-41 Development Howto?</span></font></a>. I just assumed that what ever the big bad chemical was in the C-41 was probably in the RA-4 chemicals, thus my titling of this post Carcinogenic C-41 RA-4.<br><br>

 

Anyways thanks again.

I've been interested in doing my own color work at home...,and I

recently read a post on here about doing C-41 at home and I've come to

find out that C-41 and RA-4 chemicals are carcinogenic! My question

is, are the fumes from these chemicals that much more harmful than say

secondhand smoke, gasonline fumes or artifical sweetener that comes in

those little pink packetts?? I'll be using the Tetnal kits for both

film and paper, C-41 press kit and Professional PK 5-liter RA-4 kit. I

plan to wear gloves and possibly some sorta face mask. Now before this

turns into another thread about whether or not it's worth it to

process color yourself or send it out, I'm doing this as a hobby not a

profession I do not intend to make money from this.

I was looking for the exact same thing a while back and found it at Freestyle Photo, <br><a href="http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_prod.php?cat_id=1602&pid=1793">Arista Color Filters 6x6 in.</a>