Originally posted by lbenac I use stand development:
1. Xtol 200ml
2. Rodinal 10ml
3. Tap water 800ml
4. Borax - a small touch
for one hour.
Edit: I meter the film at ISO50 as stand development tends to push the film.
It just work great for me.
Cheers,
Luc
Thanks for the recipe, I will have to give it a try as soon as I can get around to exposing some more Efke 25.
Here is the Tri-X 400/HC-110 semi-stand development I mentioned if you would like to give it a try:
- Keep all liquids at 68F throughout
- HC-110 dilution 1:112 (start with 4 ml concentrated syrup and add distilled water to make 450ml)
- Presoak with distilled water for 2 minutes
- Develop for a total of 25 minutes
- Agitation: first 30 seconds using slow inversion, then let stand with just 4 inversions at 16 minutes and 4 more at 8 minutes.
- Stop, Fix, wash and dry per your usual methods (I am assuming most of this doesn't matter except for possibly keeping agitations slow and maintaining the temperature. But for what its worth I use a water rinse in place of a stop bath)
The 4ml of syrup is below the usual 6ml minimum often cited, however I didn't have any issues with it.
As I said before, I really need to try to repeat this and then experiment to fine tune it. But in the one test I felt it really brought up the shadows while doing a nice job of protecting highlights, it showed considerably smoother grain than my "standard" development with Tri-X, and allowed for at least box speed if not a stop more.
Here is a sample. (Sorry, NOT taken with the Pentax - this was using an old 6x6 Meteor camera with its meniscus lens)
Jeff