Adox Silvermax in Kodak Tmax developer

[cerber0s]

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.

 

[cerber0s]

Well, judging by the negatives it wasn't a total bust.

 

[Lachlan Young]

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.

 

[relistan]

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.

 

[cerber0s]

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.

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.

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.

 

[Alan9940]

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

I've processed quite a few rolls of Silvermax using Silvermax developer and I find the resulting tonalities quite nice.

 

[relistan]

Thanks guys!

No probs!

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

It looks pretty fantastic in XTOL also... though of course Silvermax dev is specifically tuned to it by SPUR.