Champion Suprol

[buggleskelly]

Hi All, first post!!
I've been experimenting with stand development in Rodinal 1+100, Legacy Pro 100, and my time is 1 hour 30 minutes, which gives me a nice, fully tonal print on grade 2.
However, I tried stand dev with Suprol 1+100 for 1 hour 10 minutes, 30 sec initial agitation, and 6 inversions half way through, and the negs look lovely!!
I'll post some images soon.
We changed to Suprol at the college I used to work at in the 90s, as we had problems with mealy grain with ID11, and it gives a lovely negative
Suprol is cheap, long lasting and doubles as a paper dev.
One question: I'm about to buy some film for my Rolleiflex, and I've narrowed it down to either Efke 25, or Rollei Pan 25, any advice?
Thanks,
Buggleskelly

 

[Ian Grant]

I've used dilute Suprol commercially back in the 70's/80's for films and it's superb, very fine grained great tonal range, but a slight loss in film speed. I used to buy it in 25 litre drums

EFKE 25 is really nice film I've been using it since the 1970's

Ian

 

[garbar]

first hi all im new to this forum suprol im not sure how to use it can any one help i have 1ltr consentrait to mix with 9 lts of water do i then have to mix with more water i.e 1-19 after the first mix to dev a film or is the first mix then usable if that makes any sence to anyone thanks