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FP4+ @400 developing time needed!

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I made a big error today while shooting a roll of Ilford HP4+. I meant to shoot HP5 and set the iso to 400 when i removed the roll i noticed it was HP4+. Does anyone how the developing time for HP4+@400 in Rodinal? I have checked the web and cant find any info.
 
I just looked on the Massive Dev Chart @ digitaltruth.com and the EI of 400 is not listed for Rodinal.

You can pick up another dev; Acufine, Diafine (for contrasty lighting), Microphen, etc; ther are several that will do the trick.

Or, just maybe another APUGer lives near you and can soup you film for you for a couple of hundred bucks. :smile:
 
I developed it in Rodinal and here are the results. I cant believe i made this mistake and ruined the roll of film. Thanks for your help.
 

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They look ok. And you're not the first to do this! Why do you think they made cameras with DX Coding?

If you do a search, you'll find a couple of threads that deal with people's mistake in photography...there are some good ones!
 
They don't look bad at all! What makes you think of them as ruined?

I developed it in Rodinal and here are the results. I cant believe i made this mistake and ruined the roll of film. Thanks for your help.
 
Rodinal isn't known for getting the most speed from films. I find it as much as a stop slower than box speed with some films (unless adding Vitamin C or doing semi-stand). As Jim A. mentioned earlier, there are other developers that tend to yield higher effective film speeds.

Even automatic cameras that set film speed from a DX coded cartridge don't take this kind of adjustment into account.

Try to make a habit of changing the film speed on the camera body or light meter just before you load the film. I try to do it just before taking the film out of the packaging for loading.

At least you'll remember to check the meter's ISO setting for a while now.

I once blew a shot of a vivid monster rainbow with a very dark cloud behind it over a sunlit lake and lodge in the late afternoon when I grabbed a roll of Kodachrome 25, mistaking it for 64, and underexposed the lot. I discovered my mistake just as the rainbow was gone. I could probably have made a good sale to the lodge if I'd taken the three seconds to check film speed. The camera I was using even has a window to view the film cartridge.

Live and learn.

Lee
 
Lee has a good point re: checking your ISO/EI just before you load film. I always use the little square gizmo on the back of the camera that holds the cut-out from the box the film came in. Always tells me what film is in the camera!
 
I think they are pretty good. If this doesn't give you much comfort then take some comfort in the news that you have given at least one other member( me) a good deal of hope that should I make the same mistake or have to expose at EI400 to get the shot then I'll have a very good chance of a reasonable neg from which to make an equally reasonable print.

To use a golf analogy, if I use the wrong club I'll settle for coming in 2 strokes behind Tiger Woods as being "not bad". Actually come think of it I'll settle for two strokes behind even with the right club.

pentaxuser
 
I developed it in Rodinal and here are the results. I cant believe i made this mistake and ruined the roll of film. Thanks for your help.

Try printing on a one grade softer paper, and cut your exposure by a stop and they should turn out fine. You actually have to work at it to FUBAR B&W.....
 
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