LQN Needed

[ColColt]

I got a little interested in Fomapan 200 and 400 and saw some pics developed using LPN I liked but have noticed it's no longer available. Is there a close alternative to LPN? Maybe something from Ilford?

 

[Marco Buonocore]

Wasn't LPN just Edwal's wetting agent? It came in those white dropper bottles like the hypo check. Perhaps there's a developer going by the same name.

 

[ColColt]

It was Fomapan LQN-not LPN as I mistakenly wrote.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/792422-REG/Foma_700020_Fomadon.html

 

[Lachlan Young]

Microphen would seem a reasonable substitute - see the relevant data sheets:

http://www.foma.cz/en/fomapan-400
http://www.foma.cz/en/fomapan-200
and the catalogue on pg.6 has some useful times for different dilutions of various non-Foma developers - http://www.foma.cz/ew/92cad2bd-ec2b-4442-bc3c-b13be9ea63ff-en

Both are good films, but as you can see from the data sheets, don't expect box speed unless you use Microphen or similar.

 

[Rick A]

I prefer to develop Foma films in either PMK Pyro or Pyrocat-HD, spectacular results every time.

 

[Ricardo Miranda]

I got a little interested in Fomapan 200 and 400 and saw some pics developed using LPN I liked but have noticed it's no longer available. Is there a close alternative to LPN? Maybe something from Ilford?

I really have no pity of the idiotic American shops that just put "No longer available" when they mean "we don't have it".
Fomadon LQN is still listed on the Foma site: http://foma-cz.cs4.cstech.cz/en/catalogue-fomadon-lqn-detail-283
It is available here: http://shop.silverprint.co.uk/Fomadon-LQN-Film-Developer-Film-Developer-250ml/product/56108/V70002/
Sorry if it isn't in your country.
You should be able to find LQN here even if it isn't listed: http://www.processuk.net/
PS are the main stockists for Foma products in the UK, albeit their website doesn't have all the items, they do have more in stock.

 

[Ricardo Miranda]

P.S. You could also order Fomadon LQR, a higher contrast developer.

 

[ColColt]

You'd think it it was indeed "no longer available" they'd just say "Discontinued" instead of leaving you guessing if they're just out of stock. I tried B&H and Freestyle Photographic Supplies and both said "No longer available".

 

[ColColt]

Do you loose speed with PMK Pyro?

 

[Peter Schrager]

you don't lose speed with pyrocat but have to downgrade these films..i use 200@150 never used the 400
I am getting 100 speed out of foma 100 out here in california
best, peter

 

[ColColt]

A couple problems about the Pyro I've read is the staining issue(floor, counter tops, etc.) and the difficulty in scanning-printing may be a horse of another color but not so with scanning from all I've read.

 

[Rick A]

Do you loose speed with PMK Pyro?

I shoot at box speed most of the time, but you would have to do a personal speed test to determine your own desired results.

 

[Ricardo Miranda]

I got a little interested in Fomapan 200 and 400 and saw some pics developed using LPN I liked but have noticed it's no longer available. Is there a close alternative to LPN? Maybe something from Ilford?

I enquired with the main distributor here in the UK.
It is still available from them as I posted above.
They have no news of discontinuation.

 

[Ian Grant]

I've been using Fomapan 100 & 200 at half box speed in Pyrocat HD for nearly 10 years now, a wonderful combination with excellent results. One advantage of Pyrocat negatives is they print very easily and they also scan well.

Foma LQN is a Universal PQ type developer, you could in fact use Ilford PQ Universal at 1+19 you'd have to experiment with the time, it would be somewhere around 6mins at 20ºC.

Ian

 

[R.Gould]

I used to use RO9/one shot for Fomapan 200/400. Great resultes. but lately I have tried Firstcall film developer, which re branded Rollei RHS film developer, and get extremely good results, very fine grain. so fine that I have had difficulty focusing on grain and need to focus on fine detail, also the detail is better as is the tonality of the Fomapan negatives.
Richard