Ilford FP4Plus in HC-110: mostly grey!

[ann]

Konical

I am referring to the past year. my subconscience may have been aware longer, but ?????/
Definetly see a difference than years ago.

We mix 1:31 using a small ml beaker and rinse carefully until clean. THe basic solution is left in the orginal container. Mixing as Kodak suggest would speed up the oxidation process. Or at least in my mind.

 

[Konical]

Ann,

I agree. In addidion, doing as per Kodak is also just an extra unnecessary step.

Konical

 

[Jeremy]

I suggest trying the FP4 again in the HC-110. I just developed my first roll tonight in this stuff and it looks phenomenal. Will try to post a shot in the gallery to show you what mine look like.

used to use pyrocat but had a bad physical reaction to it from contact on my skin

 

[Jeremy]

Posted to the non-gallery photos.

 

[john_s]

Air bells are pretty normal for one's first roll. We have our personal ways of preventing them. Mine is pretty standard: As soon as the developer is in the tank, I rap the tank quite hard onto a couple of layers of towel on the bathroom floor, four or five times. Then my first one minute of agitation is constant and quite vigorous.

I have never worried about having half a tank if doing only one roll, but one must be aware that inversion in such a case is going to amount to quite vigorous agitation compared to a nearly full tank.

 

[FrankB]

Before you write off FP4+ altogether, try some with your DDX following Ilford's instructions (1:4 for 10(?) minutes). I use DDX for all Ilford stock and it works a treat (except for Delta 3200, which comes out thin, still working on that one!).