Bellini Foto Products: BW Hydrofen

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I always admired the results I get with pheidone developers. I discovered Bellini Foto's BW hydrophen developer which contains phemidone on the Freestyle website and I picked some up. I intend to try it on T-Max 400 and TX400. Does anyone have any experience with this developer, and if so, is there any advice about using it with these films?

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I haven’t used it but the instruction sheet does have a suggested development time for T-Max 400. The suggested development times at the 1+15 dilution are relatively short.

Not much information from Bellini other than it should be suitable for most films. Roughly speaking it would seem to be a general purpose PQ developer, though it does have a higher than typical pH. I doubt it will do anything particularly special but it’s probably as good as anything else.

I’ve never used any of Bellini’s developers etc. but for what it’s worth I have used some of their raw/bulk chemicals and found them to be of good quality.
 

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I've used their c-41 and e-6 and like them very much, though if Adox is bringing out a Tetanol-like mix, I will try that as well.
 

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I live not too far from where the Bellini Foto manufacturing plant is located. I can vouch for their quality. I can say that Hydrofen is a robust and very powerful developer that makes an excellent second developer in a reversal context.
Their packagings are second to none, especially when it comes to the bottle caps.
It's quite active and can be used also 1+31 diluition, doubling the developing times.
Here's the chart...
 
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I doubt it because Bellini makes EuroHC, an Hc110 clone...

EURO HC Sviluppo Pellicola - Bellini Foto

Sviluppo ad elevata concentrazione e durata nel tempo. A grana fine con bilanciamento del contrasto e alta sensibilità. Diluire 1+31.
www.bellinifoto.it
 

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Mixing my own liquid developer, extending shelf life

While I dont know the exact effect of each chemical, what I know is, when I use Ilfird PQ universal developer (phenidone based) with very low dilution like 1:200 to have low gamma, the developed film becomes brownish which obviously changes the filter settings for RA4 prints. That's why I have...
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Whatever anyone can say, there's no point for Bellini to have a duplicate product (EuroHc)...
 

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According to Bellini website:

Hydrofen: This hydroquinone and phenidone based developer is formulated for B&W film processing. Available in 1 bottle of concentrate to be diluted 1+ 15 / 1+ 31. Fine-grain developer with balanced contrasts

RDL: This p-Aminophenol based universal developer is formulated for B&W film processing. Available in two different sizes: 100 ml bottle and 250 ml bottle of concentrate to be diluted 1+ 25 / 1+ 50. One-shot, fine-grain, high energy developer with optimum contrast control.

Euro HC: Developer formulated for Black & White film processing with high concentration and durability over time. Very finegrain, contrast balance and high sensitivity. Available in 500 mL bottle of concentrate to dilute 1 + 31 to make 15 liters of ready-to-use developer (dilution "B").
 
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