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I have a box of 25 pcs. 4x5 of the SO-132 in my freezer. I will not be using it. It is dated May 2003 ....

Ok, thank you. (I had to Google a bit to understand). I have not tried XP2 much. I understand that it is very compensating in C41, but the opposite in traditional B/W developers. XP2 has an interesting foot; the shoulder looks more like traditional dilute B/W developers. Maybe I will try it one...

I am testing film in a divided Metol developer. With ND filters I am exposing 16 ‘Zones’ in a 35mm camera which has an accurate electronic shutter (I assume). I get 2 separate strips of exposures on each roll. In addition, and out of curiosity, I also subjected a strip to stand development. I...

Yes, agreed. My point, perhaps not very clear, was that some photographers are happy to use this process, despite all the things you mention. When I tried it some time ago, I was only seeking a value of 0.1 over fb. Andrew's video was an eye-opener. It is rare to see the curves. I will make a...

When I first saw Milpool’s straight, linear divided-development curves, I thought: ‘Great. This is what I think I want!’ I read about how testers do not like the slow toe on Tri-X, as it doesn’t give them adequate separation in the shadows. At the same time, it seems that there is the...

On a recent 3-week trip to Northern Japan, I travelled with three 'systems', one of which was a Rollei 35s with 11 rolls of TriX from my freezer. They were from 2015. I purchased more TriX in Japan. Having developed everything, all of my 10-year old Trix has a much higher level of BF than the...

The studio of the painter Johannes Larsen

Beautiful & intriguing

Wow! Yes, beautiful. Why the the ND filter? The water?

Thank you for an informative thread. I will be using bath B as one-shot when I am back and get to develop film again.

I realise that this is an older thread, but I just did a tiny portion of what the OP is dreaming of. I wanted to find my own EI for a couple of films that I was considering for my current travels i Spain & Portugal. I am not especially concerned with grain, but want negatives that are not too...

Thank you Milpool. That was most informative. I have actually been using Metaborate and not Borax, but it seems that this does not make much difference. I went to back to the source of my Thornton recipe (“The Edge of darkness”). In that book he mentions Phenidone as the main ingredient in...

I could not resist trying one more time with Delta films and DD-X. So I did some semi-stand and sat down and did some work while the film was being developed. At half-time I stood up and emptied out the diluted developer into a container and then poured the same diluted developer back into the...

I could not have used the fixer first. Twice I dumped 500ml of prewash liquid. I only have one container of diluted fixer-for-use (1000ml) and I am still using it. Also, stop, fix, wash and flo are located in a different area of the shop. We are several people working in the shop and we have...

Thank you ChuckRoast. I will read the Tundra files.