Adox Silvermax in Kodak Tmax developer

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I'm planning on giving my parents a properly printed photo of my son for Christmas. Today was the first day in December that we've had any sun at all, there was a whooping 45 minutes of sunshine so we rushed down to the beach and I shot an entire roll of Adox Silvermax because that's what I had loaded.

I want to develop it as soon as pissible so I have some time to het the prints right but the only developers I have are Kodak Tmax and Adox Adotech IV. Not even Adox seem to have a chart for developing Silvermax in Adotech so I scrapped that route and instead found a chart for Tmax here: https://darkroom-solutions.com/

It sais 5.45 minutes at 20 degrees C with agitation every 30 seconds. Does that sound reasonable or does anyone have different ideas?

Regarding the sun, December has been unusually grey and dark. Umea, a city close to the polar circle has had the most hours of sun in Sweden in all of December this far, they had 4 hours... This is somewhat remarkable as the sun rises at around 0930 am and sets at 0145 pm up there. Several cities have had exactly 0 hours of sunlight this far.
 
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Well, judging by the negatives it wasn't a total bust.
 

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Start from the times for Agfapan APX 100 (the classic Agfa stuff, not the 'new' one from the last couple of years) and you'll likely be very close.
 

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Like @Lachlan Young says, the emulsion for Silvermax is almost the same as classic Agfapan APX-100 and the dev times are pretty much the same. I have shot a ton of both.

If you only have the one roll and are really concerned about getting a successful shot, sacrifice a frame by cutting it in half and only developing half the roll at a time.
 
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cerber0s

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Start from the times for Agfapan APX 100 (the classic Agfa stuff, not the 'new' one from the last couple of years) and you'll likely be very close.


Thanks guys! 5.45 minutes at 20 degrees worked perfectly. I screwed up a lot of shots though, I've just gotten too used to IBIS and AF

Next time I use Silvermax I'll try the Silvermax developer.
 
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