HC-110 developer: your success with it?

Here's a great web-site for all things HC-110 http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/hc110/

Acros in HC-110

tbm said:

I bought a new Metz 45CL-4 flash unit and, after attaching it to my Leica M6 TTL upon loading a roll of Acros 100, I have begun testing it indoors. I'm not done with the roll yet. Before I process the roll of Acros, I find that I'm down to only a bottle of Kodak's HC-110 which I've not tried yet, but I found a developing recommendation of dilution B for 5.5 minutes on the Web. Would you please share your positive and negative experiences with this developer and the films you shoot? Thanks!

Terry

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I've used HC-110 with Acros 35mm and have been happy with the results. I use it 1:50 straight from the bottle, 68F with standard agitation. Camera was my Contax G series rangefinder,w/Contax flash, and changes between Zeiss 28mm & 90mm.

The variations in lighting made it a good test for me, and I processed it with some Tri-X, and everything came out beautiful.

So don't worry about HC-110, it'll do the job.

tbm said:

Hi, Rolleijoe! Would you kindly mention the development time for HC-110 and Acros at 1:51? Thank you!

Terry

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Hi Terry! It's 6 min @ 68F normal agitation (1st min constant agitation, then 5sec every 30sec). This is my standard with HC-110 no matter which film I regularly use (have exposure technique down, so that I can shoot diff films and develop them all the same).

I included 3 examples of Acros in 35mm HC-110 in a posting here, just a few minutes ago.

Cheers!

Rolleijoe

gainer said:

In fact, you can leave out the Dektol if you don't mind adding some washing soda to the HC110. I add vitamin C to it as well. With that combination, forget Rodinal.

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gainer,

can you be more specific with the washing soda info and the Vitamin C. "Washing soda", is their a particular kind of washing soda, where do you get it, how much per volume of water, etc...Also with the Vitamin C, in what manner and how much is it added? And, what are the anticipated effects of these in HC-110?. I use Hc-110 exclusively and would like to try it.

Thanks,

Chuck

I like many of you have used and liked HC 110 for many years. I recently
found two one gallon bottles that had been stored in a bad way. They have
sat untouched in a tin storage building for 13 years. Freezing in Winter boiling in Summer, but it still looked good so I mixed up a batch of B dilution
and went to work in the Dark room. I did develop by inspection, but the negs
turned out to as good as any that I have ever done. I still don't believe the HC 110 could be any good after what it has been subjected to. Some day soon I will print the negs and post the prints. Then maybe I can adjust to the shock and disbelief I am feeling.

Rolleijoe said:

Hi Terry! It's 6 min @ 68F normal agitation (1st min constant agitation, then 5sec every 30sec). This is my standard with HC-110 no matter which film I regularly use (have exposure technique down, so that I can shoot diff films and develop them all the same).

I included 3 examples of Acros in 35mm HC-110 in a posting here, just a few minutes ago.

Cheers!

Rolleijoe

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Thanks, Rollei! I'll try that method. I drove to Freestyle Camera yesterday to buy some more print developer and asked a male at the film counter for 20 rolls of Acros 100. He looked at the refrigerators and stated "Hmmm...we're out of it". It seems somebody beat me to it and bought their entire stock! The clerk also stated "I don't like Acros 100 because I can't get any whites in my negatives". I didn't bother to discuss that further, for if he didn't have enough sense to explore different developers and techniques and didn't think to perform a search on the Web and end up, say, at APUG, I chose to leave him amidst his naivete. Acros 100 and my Leica lenses produce outstanding acutance and tonality, results similar to Delta 100. I am so thrilled that Fuji created Acros 100 and thereby confirmed to us film lovers that film is here to stay!!