Adox HR-50 First Time User

250swb said:

I think this is a very good review of developers to use with HR-50 and has DD-X among them.

http://www.alexluyckx.com/blog/2021/08/09/film-review-blog-no-74-adox-hr-50/

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250swb said:

I think this is a very good review of developers to use with HR-50 and has DD-X among them.

http://www.alexluyckx.com/blog/2021/08/09/film-review-blog-no-74-adox-hr-50/

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John Wiegerink said:

Yes, I read that review sometime back and it's one of the reasons I tried obtaining another bottle of FX-39II. That, and Henning Serger saying it was his, more or less, favorite developer for HR-50 also. Unfortunately FX-39II has been "out of stock" at Freestyle for a loooooong time now. Hopefully the new shipment makes it to our shores before I turn into dust.

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blee1996 said:

I can confirm that FX-39 II (1+9 dilution) works really well with HR-50 in 135 format, with very gentle agitation. Unfortunately FX-39 II is out of stock everywhere in the states, so I'm rationing my last bottle of 500ML. In the meantime I might try the TD-3 developer, which I bought for Kodak Tech Pan.

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Henning Serger said:

Well, I have tested both. Results:
- HR-50 has significantly finer grain, higher resolution and better sharpness
- the characteristic curve of PanF+ is more linear, that of HR-50 more S-shaped
- the spectral sensitization is of course different (super-panchromatic vs. panchromatic).

Both films are excellent, and from both you can make very large prints from 35mm film with excellent quality. Especially with the modern, much improved high-performance lenses. These films with these lenses are a perfect combination.
But HR-50 has a very clear and visible advantage here: Enlargements from HR-50 35mm film often rival enlargements of classic emulsion films in medium format (4.5x6, 6x6).
You get a kind of 'medium-format-quality' with 35mm HR-50 / SCALA 50 concerning detail rendition.

And you get that quality at really very fair and attractive prices. ADOX has furtunately not followed KA's policy of very high price increases.
The price-performance ratio of HR-50 / SCALA 50 is really very outstanding.

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flavio81 said:

Thanks for this info, I bought HR-50 because on tests Pan-F wasn't really better than Delta 100 (which on the other hand it's an outstanding film).

And I agree with the pricing, very reasonable in europe. I bought HR-50 and I also took the opportunity to buy Adox's Crafted for Henning Serger (CHS) II 100. The CHS costed just slightly more than the Fomapan. At those prices Adox ought to dominate Europe...

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