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ADOX CHS 100 II is back in 35mm!

Also the revenue of Fotoimpex, right? I bought quite a lot in december, because I started printing and stocked up on Ilford film to profit of the lower MwSt and the Ilford products and being afraid that Brexit made their products more expensive.
 
Curious to know if anybody has tried it in Rodinal...
 
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Thanks for the picks.
 
markjwyatt said:
Is there a delay on producing this in 35mm?...
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No. In stock at ADOX's retail outlet:

markjwyatt said:
...I notice Freestyle expected to have some, but did not get it...
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Freestyle, like most other businesses, is suffering from long delays in surface shipping channels. It did not receive any of the many ADOX products it had listed as "due Sep 3" until last Thursday, after which it changed all those notes to "chat, email or call for availability."

Surface shipping today is less monetarily expensive, but costs much more time.
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...No one else in the US appears to have any.
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Freestyle is both a retailer of and U.S. distributor for ADOX products. All other merchants here are waiting for Freestyle, just like you are.

Ordering direct from FOTOIMPEX incurs a substantial DHL surcharge, but, despite DeNoJoy's trashing of its last-mile partner USPS, has been getting my packages here in less than three weeks.
 
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Thanks, Sal. Just called and it has not been received yet. I do have email notification set-up, and that has worked in the past.
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You're most welcome.

Here's another Freestyle tidbit. When its ADOX shipment does arrive, and the Web site says "in stock," you still might be unable to purchase any, depending on how much it received. What, you ask? Let me explain. While an item is out of stock, Freestyle's Web site won't permit ordering any. As soon as the item comes back into stock, one can place it into one's cart and check out. That might not be the end of the process, though. After taking those steps some months ago trying to buy CHS-100 II in 5x7, I got email from Freestyle saying my order was cancelled, since they were out of stock again. How could that be, I asked? It seems that, while on-line ordering isn't possible for out-of-stock items, one can phone Freestyle and place such an order. When the film arrived, they filled all the phoned-in back orders for it, ran out of stock and cancelled remaining on-line orders.

Moral of the story: if you're intent on buying CHS-100 II from Freestyle, call them back and place an order for it on the phone now.
 
I’m going to try this film and have a question about developer. Should I use the FX-39. Or D76? I have a lot of original Rodinal I could use too. Henning’s photos above look great with FX-39, but maybe someone else used a different developer.

Henning, just curious what fixer you used with the FX-39.
 
CHS 100 II struggles to retain good shadow detail, and Rodinal is only going to compound that problem. So stick with FX-39 or D-76 - either are excellent. And fixer is fixer, so don't worry about fixer choices.
 

I've used Rodinal and FX-39 II, but have gone to FX-39 II. Not a huge difference, but the semi-stand method with FX-39 (I do 5 inversions ever 1 minute, where other developers I do every 30 seconds) seems to give a less contrasty image with smoother grain. HC110 works pretty well also. I use Ilford Rapid Fixer with all developers.

Here are some samples with Rodinal:

Flickr Search — “ADOX CHS 100 AND Rodinal”

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and FX-39 II:

Flickr Search — “ADOX CHS 100 AND FX-39”

www.flickr.com

I do not have D-76, but here are a few developed in HC110:

Flickr Search — “ADOX CHS 100 AND HC110”

www.flickr.com
 
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Well, I am very satiesfied with the combination of CHS 100 II in FX-39 II.
Delivers excellent sharpness and - in my subjective feeling - a very nice, accentuated grain.
I am using it with the Zone system for classic optical enlarging: I have optimised it with an EI of 50/18° for getting optimal shadow detail and curve shape with excellent tonality.

Concerning fixer: You can use any good fixer you want. I am using ADOX ADOFIX Plus express fixer.

Best regards,
Henning
 
I haven only developed it in Rodinal and I actually really like it.
 
PerTulip said:
Any experiences developing it with Acurol-N?
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No, at least not yet.
But SPUR has recently improved Acurol-N. It now offers a bit better shadow detail / higher effective sensitivity.

Best regards,
Henning
 

My first roll is in Kodak Retina iic as we speak. I will probably develop in hc110 as its that or rodinal. My actual question here is are there any plans for bulk rolls. I can get Scala 50 but the NW of England often has poor light
 
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