Fomapan 400 in Diafine and Rodinal Observations

Please take these as the observations of a Holga shooter-

I've been getting no appreciable 'toe' gain (shadow speed remains the same) in Diafine and find the highlights pretty tame, even muted. This makes it a good combo good for bright contrasty conditions but terrible for cloudy and other low contrast conditions. I found Rodinal the preferred developer when shooting in such conditions especially if I increase development 20% over what's recommended.

Anyone else care to share their experiences with this film?

Thanks

Victor

Fomapan and diafine with my Brownie camera seem to produce extremely contrasty results - lith-like in some cases. That's about all I can comment. Brownies aren't much higher up the ranks than holgas, few more f-stop choices if you're lucky.

Akki14 said:

Fomapan and diafine with my Brownie camera seem to produce extremely contrasty results - lith-like in some cases. That's about all I can comment. Brownies aren't much higher up the ranks than holgas, few more f-stop choices if you're lucky.

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I'd lLOVE to see those...they sound great! Please post if you get a chance.

I get very lith like results from foma/diafine in contrasty situations

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but it just dies for me in lower contrast situations. Those I print as lith prints to up the contrast

Thanks

Looking through the negatives again (I've not had any fomapan around for a little while), the lighting conditions might have been a bit more contrasty than i first thought. One interesting thing I noticed was my "normal" developer(FD10 fotospeed at the time) would make the edgemarkings go very blurry and overexposed looking - diafine didn't do that. I can tell which negatives got which developer for that reason. They're not the best and I'm currently wondering where my favourite fomapan negative has got to which was very high contrast... I was mostly using fomapan/diafine as something cheap to burn through while learning. This is Fomapan 400 by the way.