Instant Mytol Recipe

BHuij · 2025-07-21T17:41:44-0400

I'll throw my recipe into the mix - I can't remember where I sourced mine, but it was definitely an "Instant Mytol" recipe rather than just "Mytol". I adjusted the recipe down to make 250ml of stock strength solution (which I guess is supposed to be essentially equivalent to XTOL stock). Just enough for a single roll of 35mm in my Nikor steel tank. I can just open a "capsule", toss it into 250ml of water, and stir for a minute or so, and then use one shot.

I absolutely love this stuff for Delta 100 and HP5+ in 35mm and 120. Extremely fine grain and full film speed or better. Tons of resolution.

Recipe is found on this page for a 3D printed "capsule" I made to store premeasured ingredients prior to use.

Don_ih · 2025-07-21T17:53:46-0400

BHuij said:
I'll throw my recipe into the mix

Seems to be the same as the one Koraks posted.

Yours, for 250ml

or Koraks' for 1 litre:

looks like 4x yours. (Easy for me to recognize, since I always mix 250ml of 1:1 calculated from that second recipe, and it is pretty much 1/2 of every bit of your recipe.)

BHuij · 2025-07-21T18:05:06-0400

It's entirely possible that I got my recipe from Koraks originally. Been a couple of years since I started playing with Instant Mytol, and IIRC he was there helping me answer a lot of questions up front.

aconbere · 2025-07-22T00:04:24-0400

BHuij said:
I'll throw my recipe into the mix - I can't remember where I sourced mine, but it was definitely an "Instant Mytol" recipe rather than just "Mytol". I adjusted the recipe down to make 250ml of stock strength solution (which I guess is supposed to be essentially equivalent to XTOL stock). Just enough for a single roll of 35mm in my Nikor steel tank. I can just open a "capsule", toss it into 250ml of water, and stir for a minute or so, and then use one shot.

I absolutely love this stuff for Delta 100 and HP5+ in 35mm and 120. Extremely fine grain and full film speed or better. Tons of resolution.

Recipe is found on this page for a 3D printed "capsule" I made to store premeasured ingredients prior to use.

Thanks for chiming in. I’ve seen your recipe and was one of the ones I’d been planning to try (and another fellow in the club I’m in uses your recipe and canisters). Nice job!

bluechromis · 2025-07-22T00:49:54-0400

Raghu Kuvempunagar said:
In case you didn't know already, @relistan's PC-512 Borax uses fewer ingredients than Instant Mytol and is gaining a solid reputation as a XTol-like developer. Merits consideration.

I like PC-512 very much. To be clear, it is not an exact clone of Xtol, in the way that Mytol and Instant Mytol are meant to be. It is more like a cousin. I see it as a brilliant evolution of Pat Gainer's approach to sulfite-free ascorbate developers. Relistan has been able to mitigate the fog and graininess of Gainer's formulas while retaining the high acutance and long shelf life.

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