Your favorite 8x10 film/developer combination

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Collin Brendemuehl - 24 Nov 2003 18:45 GMT

Since I'm new to 8x10 my film is current some thrift-shop-purchased
TMax 100 which I'm developing in HC-110(b). Results are pretty nice
though TMax is far from my favorite film. Never really like it overall.

What are my other b&w 8x10 options and the results you've gotten from them?
Or is 8x10 just so large that they're all, with the right combination
& practice, going to produce very nice results?

(I'm using an old Kodak 2D with a Nikkor-M 300/9 & will try to scan a
contact print or two next week.)

TIA,

Collin

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brook - 24 Nov 2003 22:20 GMT

> Since I'm new to 8x10 my film is current some thrift-shop-purchased
> TMax 100 which I'm developing in HC-110(b). Results are pretty nice
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> Collin

This is really going to depend on your final choice of material to
print on. If you are going to contact print, you really should
consider the AZO/amidol combo. This will require a much denser and
contrastier negative than any of the enlarging papers will handle
well. I like ABC pyro, with Sandy Kings Pyrocat HD being another good
choice. I use HP5+.
Brook

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Alexis Neel - 25 Nov 2003 09:21 GMT

> > Since I'm new to 8x10 my film is current some thrift-shop-purchased
> > TMax 100 which I'm developing in HC-110(b). Results are pretty nice
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> choice. I use HP5+.
> Brook

Tri-X in Xtol developed for 8 minutes. Prints nicely on a grade 1 1/2
with rich ,id range contrast, but not to heavy highlights to blow out.

Alexis

www.alexisneel.com

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Dick - 26 Nov 2003 17:05 GMT

Which dilution of Xtol is that, I think it is 1:1 at 21 degrees? I prefer
1:3 as it seems to fool the eye into thinking my lenses are sharper than
they really are. For that dilution, the time would be 14 minutes at 20
degrees. While there is a small increase in grain (due to the longer
developing time, I guess), for large format sheet film that does not seem to
be significant in the final print(s).

Dick

> > > Since I'm new to 8x10 my film is current some thrift-shop-purchased
> > > TMax 100 which I'm developing in HC-110(b). Results are pretty nice
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> www.alexisneel.com

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Alexis Neel - 26 Nov 2003 23:47 GMT

Straight

> Which dilution of Xtol is that, I think it is 1:1 at 21 degrees? I prefer
> 1:3 as it seems to fool the eye into thinking my lenses are sharper than
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> > www.alexisneel.com

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Paul W. Ross - 27 Nov 2003 00:04 GMT

I do 4x5's for my pinhole camera by inspection. I have used HC-110(b)
with success, but like Rodinol 1:50, which takes enough time -- 7+
minutes, so I can inspect with a dark green safety light.

I am using either Tmax-100 or some of that high constrast ASA 25
stuff, with shortened development.

Back to basics...

See what Edward Weston did -- he did 8x10 and contact printed...

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