Developers made in Russia

[Alan Johnson]

For my FED-2D rangefinder I have ordered some out of date Tasma 65 film made in Russia.To be authentic I would like to know what type B/W film developer might have been used in Russia with this film in 1960-80,if it was similar to Western developers or can be made up from chems.In case someone knows, thanks in advance.

 

[Jeff L]

Does this link help at all?
http://photo.net/black-and-white-photo-film-processing-forum/006epd
Some info on Russian developer.

 

[Alan Johnson]

Thanks for the link.
Interesting no mention of D-76 type although other countries took up this formula,eg D-76 is in BJP annual 1941,earliest I have.

 

[Igor Savchenko]

For my FED-2D rangefinder I have ordered some out of date Tasma 65 film made in Russia.To be authentic I would like to know what type B/W film developer might have been used in Russia with this film in 1960-80,if it was similar to Western developers or can be made up from chems.In case someone knows, thanks in advance.

The manufactures (both Tasma and Svema) recommended developer was CT-2 (Standard No.2) aka Agfa-12. Developing time was written on the film box. It differed from emulsion to emulsion and normally was about 7-10 minutes for this film.

 

[srs5694]

FWIW, I bought a stash of Svema FN64 a while back and tested it with a few developers, although I never tried the CT-2/Agfa-12. I found that Rodinal 1+25 for 6:15 at 20C worked best. Rodinal 1+50 for 10:30 and DS-12 2+1 for 11:00 also worked quite well. Surprisingly, XTOL produced hideous results. Density was good, but the grain was awful and the development was uneven. I don't know what went wrong with that combination, but it wasn't a one-time quirk (I got bad results with one roll and so tried a test with part of another). I don't know how similar your Tasma film is to the Svema, so my experiences might or might not be relevant.

 

[Alan Johnson]

Btw, near the end of the following, Roobit indicates that Tasma no longer make any retail packaged 35mm film,partly because there are no supplies of cassettes/spools.It may be the old film on ebay is the last of it.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/ishootfilm/discuss/72157608667043681/