Photo Forum / Film Photography / Darkroom / May 2005
Fomapan 100 developer dilemma
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iga - 08 May 2005 15:33 GMT Hi all ! It's a first time I will develope Fomapan 100 35mm film. I have D76 and Rodinal which I normally use with Ilford and Agfa films, so the dilemma is - which one with Foma ? Anybody with personal experience - please, let me know your impressions. Thanks,
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Rod Smith - 08 May 2005 17:49 GMT > It's a first time I will develope Fomapan 100 35mm film. > I have D76 and Rodinal which I normally use with Ilford > and Agfa films, so the dilemma is - which one with Foma ? > Anybody with personal experience - please, let me know > your impressions. I've developed a roll of Fomapan 400 and a couple of rolls of Fomapan 200 (sold as Paterson Acupan), all 35mm, all in D-76. Overall, I liked the results. The film was about average in grain for the speed -- less grainy than some, but grainier than T-grain films. I'd expect grain to be more pronounced with Rodinal. There was something about the grain structure that appealed to me, but I'm afraid I can't describe it -- just one of those subjective things. Most of my subjects were old buildings and objects; I don't know if the grain structure and tonality would work as well for people.
Anyhow, the D-76 worked well for me, but I can't compare it to Rodinal, which I've never used. Also, this was with the 200 and 400 films, not the 100. (As a side note, I gather the Fomapan T200 film sold in Europe is a T-grain film, but the Fomapan 200 that's available in the US as Paterson Acupan isn't. This is nth-hand information, though, so treat it with some skepticism.)
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Andrew Price - 08 May 2005 20:06 GMT >t's a first time I will develope Fomapan 100 35mm film. >I have D76 and Rodinal which I normally use with Ilford >and Agfa films, so the dilemma is - which one with Foma ? Both work, although personally I prefered the results with D-76. I also found that Ilford's DD-X gave very good results with Fomapan 100.
iga - 08 May 2005 20:32 GMT Thanks both, Andrew and Rod ! What dilution of D76 is the best in your opinion - stock, 1 + 1 ... ? Thanks,
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> >t's a first time I will develope Fomapan 100 35mm film. > >I have D76 and Rodinal which I normally use with Ilford > >and Agfa films, so the dilemma is - which one with Foma ? > > Both work, although personally I prefered the results with D-76. I > also found that Ilford's DD-X gave very good results with Fomapan 100. Rod Smith - 08 May 2005 21:24 GMT > Thanks both, Andrew and Rod ! > What dilution of D76 is the best in your opinion - stock, 1 + 1 ... ? I used 1:1 for the three rolls I processed, so I can't comment on whether that or something else would work best.
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Andrew Price - 09 May 2005 19:43 GMT >> Thanks both, Andrew and Rod ! >> What dilution of D76 is the best in your opinion - stock, 1 + 1 ... ? > >I used 1:1 for the three rolls I processed, so I can't comment on whether >that or something else would work best. I also used 1+1, and was satisfied with the results (although I preferred using DD-X with Fomapan).
Apart from the longer developing times and the savings in developer, I really don't think there's much difference between D-76 stock and diluted 1:1.
iga - 09 May 2005 22:42 GMT Done ! D76 1 + 1, 9,5 min at 21ºC. Film is still a little bit wet, but looks fine. BTW, film does not curl as I read somewhere in Internet. But it's a bit harder than, say, Ilford.. Thanks to all,
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> >> Thanks both, Andrew and Rod ! > >> What dilution of D76 is the best in your opinion - stock, 1 + 1 ... ? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > really don't think there's much difference between D-76 stock and > diluted 1:1. iga - 10 May 2005 14:42 GMT Bad news : there are two very thin, razor sharp scratched lines from the beginning till the end of the film. I cut about 10cm fom another roll and put it in fixer. At totally clean film ( no emulsion ) both lines are there. Pity, but there is no way to get something good for 1 Euro..
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> Done ! > D76 1 + 1, 9,5 min at 21ºC. Film is still a little bit wet, [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > really don't think there's much difference between D-76 stock and > > diluted 1:1. Andrew Price - 10 May 2005 19:33 GMT >BTW, film does not curl as I read somewhere >in Internet. I've read that too, but Foma never did that; at least that isn't the word I'd have used to describe what it does do - it has a tendency to "roll back up" again, which some people defined as "curl".
It was the old Croatian Efke which had the atrocious tendency of curling about its longitudinal axis.
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