Thanks Michael. I always tried to develop 35mm BW as "normal -1" which
produces a softer negative. The thing I did not like about that is you
have to print on a harder paper and this accentuates grain. These
problems are still evident but a bit different in scanning and there are
resources to deal with excessive grain and other problems.
Do you have the American or the European form of HC110?
I am interested in working with higher dilutions of (American) HC110.
The unofficial dilution H is twice the dilution of B. I need to
experiment more, but it seems as though development is not quite linear
with dilution H. If you merely double the time for dilution B, the
negative might be a little softer than one might have expected. On my
next roll of Acros, I am going to give it a 20% increase. I was clued
in to the non-linearity before this last roll and increased development
time by 10%.
HC110 is pretty economical too. I mix 9.5 ml of the syrup to 600 ml of
water for a one-shot solution. At that rate I can almost develop 50
rolls of 120 per bottle.
It's a lot of fun when it sort of works.
Joel W.
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012, at 04:08 PM, Michael Wong wrote:
> Joel,
> Yes, I do develop my B&W films with HC110 but not in general formula. My
> teacher who taught me to develop films which were taken in different
> contrast environment with different dilutions. Most important, I'll go to
> print out the pictures by conventional enlarging way in dark room, he
> taught me to develop the film a bit of "thicker" that will be more easy
> to
> printing in dark room. Normally, 1:20 for normal contrast environment,
> 1:10
> or 15 for low contrast environment, 1:30 for high contrast environment.
> He
> and I would like to develop the film "harder".
>
> But there is another story for my professional photographer friend, he
> took
> film but will go to digital output finally. He always prints the pictures
> in 40"~80" due to his job needed. He will develop the films "thiner" to
> get
> more details when scanning. There are two different ways for conventional
> printing & digital printing.
>
> Large format is a very good machine for someone who will develop his
> films
> self. I may develop film one by one with different dilutions for
> different
> contrast environment. Except you will take all pictures in same contrast
> environment for a roll film.
>
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
>
>
> On 6 July 2012 11:55, Joel Wilcox <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Michael. Do you ever use HC110?
> >
> > Joel W.
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Michael Wong wrote:
> > > Joel,
> > > The tone is great. Nice picture :-)
> >
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