Oldwino wrote: theHUN wrote: Oldwino wrote: theHUN wrote: Oldwino wrote: theHUN wrote: Tina Kino wrote:
... I want something that looks a bit more "classy" / elegant than HP5, and Tri-X 400 ...
I did a very rough comparison between Delta 400, Tmax 400, HP5 and Tri-X with the result that HP5 gave me an actual film speed of ISO400, while the others were slower. That was good enough for me to make it my default ISO400 film. I find it classy enough, but perhaps that's because I am using it in 120 size. Also, once I started loving the grain in other peoples' images, I tried to embrace it in my own, and I have mostly succeeded.
For fine grain I either use Acros or digital.
In which developer?
Rodinal.
You generally lose about a stop with Rodinal.
Best HP5 + Rodinal combo I've tried is 1+75 at 14 minutes. (at 400)
That was my expectation too, and it is consistent with both Acros and FP4 giving me half box speed (at 1+75, 15 min). But HP5 in Rodinal 1+60, 20 min, actually gave me ISO400.
Ah, I'm going to have to try your dilution/time. I've struggled to get "decent" contrast from HP5, it's usually too flat for me, and the 1+75 dilution is working well for me. (This was a recommendation from Popular Photography magazine in 1979). The other good results I've gotten from HP5 have been in Diafine, but at 800.
What sort of agitation are you doing? I've found gentle to be key with Rodinal.
I'm not quite sure what @theHUN will recommend but a suggestion from another forum has yielded good results:
Initially, 30 seconds of continuous, very gentle agitation followed by 3 gentle inversions every minute.
It relly helped to reduce the grain and nice even tones across the negative.
Jan 16, 2025 at 01:43 PM
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