Finally, I found a local supplier who sells raw chemistry at reasonable prices. Now I can make both Diafine and Farmer's reducer. What I would like to try is to shoot the same scene on the whole roll of expired 35 mm film, cut it in 4-5 frame strips and use different developers like HC-110, Rodinal (normal and stand), Diafine, and maybe monobath to see what results they give. Ideally, I'd like to find a 30 ft roll of very expired but not completely dead film for the experiment. Otherwise, Svema 64 might do the job.
By the way, the results you achieved with Svema are impressive. The box speed for the film would be 64 GOST/ISO (unless you got Svema-32). So you are shooting it 3 stops below the box speed. The film would be around 30 years old by now if not older.
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This is great, I'm really happy for you, I wish you success.
I totally agree with you, you should do many experiments, you will have fun.
I agree with you on everything you said except for the developer (Monopath), in fact I was never convinced by it. In my humble opinion, I think this developer is not worth testing.
And I wish you all the best and success.
- But I would like to give you one piece of advice, comparing the types of developers is like comparing the types of fruits.
- I never think that it makes sense to compare bananas, mangoes, and watermelon, since the taste of each category is completely different and very distinct. There is no similarity (even a little) between the taste of mango and the taste of banana, so the comparison here would be an illogical comparison. .
- You can eat all kinds of fruits according to the need and according to the circumstances you are going through, you can never dispense with mana in favor of bananas or dispense with both in favor of watermelon.
- Based on this previous example, I would like to tell you that no developer is 100% perfect and fit for all purposes and at all times,,
- Yes, there is a developer called (general) and it is suitable for “most” categories of films, but inevitably every developer has different advantages from the other, and for example, the best developer that gives you the greatest accuracy of details in the shadows is an anonymous developer that no one knows and It is called Agfa 12 - but it is somewhat lacking in contrast.
- And thus, you will find that there is a developer who is distinguished in one thing and not distinguished in the other.
There is no perfection in the universe at all, no matter how hard we try to reach the maximum perfection, we will inevitably fail.
- This developer that you recommended for the old rolls will definitely not be suitable for use with new, unexpired emulsions. On the contrary, it will inevitably bring disastrous and adverse results with non-expired films, as it was designed to perform a specific target only.