FP4+ in rodinal or Ulrtrafin Pluss?

[Christian Hilmersen]

I shoot mostly 35mm film, and Ilford Delta films. I have however bought a few FP4s, and need some advice on how to develop them for later printing in size 20x30cm or 30x45cm. I have Rodinal and Tetanal Ultrafin Pluss. What results can I expect? What is the best way to develop this film?

 

[BWGirl]

Hi Christian!
Well, I like FP4 & I think you will find quite a few people who like it here.
I develop it in Rodinal 1:50 for 8 minutes if I shoot it at 125. If I shoot it at 50, I use Rodinal 1:50 for 6 minutes.
It's a nice film & really versatile!

Hope this helps some!

 

[Ornello]

I shoot mostly 35mm film, and Ilford Delta films. I have however bought a few FP4s, and need some advice on how to develop them for later printing in size 20x30cm or 30x45cm. I have Rodinal and Tetanal Ultrafin Pluss. What results can I expect? What is the best way to develop this film?

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FP4 is a good film in almost any developer...

 

[Christian Hilmersen]

Guess I just have to try both - maybe using stand development... Thanx

 

[skahde]

If you are used to deltas fp4+ in rodinal maybe to much of a culture shock. The grain gets obvious very quick. With respect to Ultrafin plus it will work quite similar to TMAX-developer with non-tabular films. At least HP5+ likes it quite a bit.

 

[NikoSperi]

If you are used to deltas fp4+ in rodinal maybe to much of a culture shock. The grain gets obvious very quick. With respect to Ultrafin plus it will work quite similar to TMAX-developer with non-tabular films. At least HP5+ likes it quite a bit.

I'll second that; at 30x45cm from 35mm, you had better like the grain the Rodinal is going to give you. I have only done a few trials with Ultrafin, but have been quite impressed. I would go with the Tetenal.

 

[kintatsu]

I've used the Ultrafin Plus at 1+9, and found the results quite nice. With stand developing you're grain will be more pronounced, but the images will be nice. I realize no one has posted here for several years, but I just discovered this site and this post, so I thought others might be interested.

 

[piu58]

I love Rodinal, but I was never satisfied if I used it with FP4+. I 70 ASA from that film, I expected somthiong about 100. Highlights were a problem and need to select the developping time very carefully.

 

[Athiril]

I had fine grain and sharp results with FP4+ and Rodinal 1+100. At EI 50.

20 minutes at 20 celsius. It was 2009, hard to remember, but knowing me it might have been two gentle inversions every 4 or 5 minutes. Not discounting per minute agitation though.


Forest by athiril, on Flickr

Close up, bottom crop is from a superior scan vs top crop (from the below image), not here to show that, but to show the grain/sharpness with this method (FP4+ in Rodinal 1+100). It's frame the same roll as the image above. But one is flipped over the wrong way and I'm not sure which

In case you're wondering about the level of resolution there... the bottom crop, it's about 48-50 lp/mm at maximum potential in those pixel dimensions vs physical size I calculated.

So at most the level of detail you can see from that enlargement there is equivalent to 50 lp/mm (or less).

6x7cm.. for 35mm visualisation, just crop the bottom right 1/4, and then the same enlargement section vs detail level would be doable.


This is far from the finest grained and sharpest film + developer combination in the shed.