Need help with KENTMERE 100 ASA B&W 35mm Film - Choosing developer

[dhoang]

Hi,

The chart of this film shows that I need to use the D-76 developer. However, the only developer i have is TMAX plain. (I use this developer for my TMAX 400)

Is there any one can help me figure out the processing time?

 

[Jeff Kubach]

Look up Massive Development Chart. BTW welcome to APUG.

Jeff

 

[ntenny]

There's not very much on the MDC yet for Kentmere films. It looks like there's a TMAX time for Kentmere 400 but not Kentmere 100.

You might try to extrapolate from another film of somewhat similar characteristics (e.g., FP4+ has a very slightly shorter time in D-76 stock than Kentmere 100 has, so you might guess that the time for Kentmere 100 in TMAX 1+4 would be very slightly longer than the 8 minutes given for FP4+), and do some experimenting from that starting point.

My results with Kentmere 100 haven't been that great, but that may just reflect my own failings as a photographer. (Or maybe it doesn't scan very well.)

-NT

 

[Jerevan]

I was thinking of extraploating from the Ilfordpan 100/FP4+ films. Somewhere about 8 minutes sounds like a start for Tmax Dev 1+4. So I concur with Nathan.

I have used XTOL 1+1 for 12 minutes but I have only run a few rolls of Kentmere 100 yet so I am still closing on the target. Very nice film overall, I think. The Kentmere 400 seems to need a bit more time in the developer compared to my standard HP5+.

 

[Tim Gray]

I'd extrapolate from FP4+. Compare the times for D76 for the Kentmere and FP4+, and then look at FP4+'s time for Tmax dev, and adjust by the percentage difference between the D76 times. Or something. Haha.

 

[Jim Noel]

A little time doing your own tests is the best way to get this information.

 

[dhoang]

thanks

thanks very much folks!
I'll cut a piece of this first roll (last 1,2 shots) then develop it for testing purpose.
I hope I will not have to throw away these Kentmere rolls