Acros wisdom

[weasel]

Interesting to revisit this thread after a few months. After trying several combinations of developer, exposure and such, I have settled on PMK Pyro for 11 minutes at 70, one tank inversion every 15 seconds, at an ei of 50.
I tried Thorntons version of divided 23 and had trouble controlling the contrast. Others have done work with this combo, more in depth than I , and are getting good results, so I may revisit this.
I was not pleased with Diafine. The contrast is poor, and my prints are murky, lacking good highlight separation.
However, the negatives with this combo scan wonderfully. If scanning were to be my output this would probably be my choice.
The PMK Pyro is giving me extremely sharp images with nice micro contrast that gives good edge effects without looking overdone. Great highlight detail.It essentially grain less.
This film is sharp, sharp, sharp. So sharp in fact, that I have been rethinking the whole " bigger is better"negative thing.
I find that in side by side testing with my gear that a 645 negative is virtually impossible to tell from 67.
I think I have to jump to 4x5 to see any real improvement.

 

[T Hoskinson]

I'm still developing my Acros in Pyrocat with excellent results, great microcontrast, great highlight and shadow detail! Most of my current Acros work is 120 rollfilm shot in my Mamiya 7ii system. Sharp!! I'm still shooting Kodak TMY-2 400 in my 8x10 and developing it in Pyrocat-MC with excellent results.

 

[monosnaps]

Using Acros 120 with Rodinal 1+50 developed for 11minutes and rated at 50asa. No complaints, reciprocity failure is not an issue with long exposures which is a real bonus. Judging by comments above I am sure it would give good results even if you developed it in Tea.

 

[T Hoskinson]

Using Acros 120 with Rodinal 1+50 developed for 11minutes and rated at 50asa. No complaints, reciprocity failure is not an issue with long exposures which is a real bonus. Judging by comments above I am sure it would give good results even if you developed it in Tea.

Pyrocat-MC contains a bit of TEA (i.e. Triethanolamine).