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Pick one Ilford developer.

Mike Kennedy

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I can afford to place an order to Darkroom Central for one Ilford developer.I shoot HP5 and FP4+.
Suggestions please?
 

Keith Tapscott.

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Mike Kennedy said:
I can afford to place an order to Darkroom Central for one Ilford developer.I shoot HP5 and FP4+.
Suggestions please?
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ID-11 diluted 1+1 is very hard to beat, although I personally use Kodak D-76.
It can be used undiluted, although there is a slight initial fog and less shadow detail with some slow and medium speed films when exposed at box speed. I much prefer the results when the developer is diluted 1+1 with FP4 Plus and HP5 Plus. I use it undiluted with Kodak HIE infra-red film.
 

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DDX
 

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ID11 1+1

Regards Paul.
 

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No ID-11 full strength and replenished, far higher quality and very much more economic. That's how D76/ID-11 is really designed to be used.

Ian
 

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ID-11. You can soup any film made with it, you can use it 1+0 for a fine-grain effect, dilute it 1+1 for a compromise or dilute it 1+3 for an accutance look. It's not great at anything; there are better devs out there that will top it in any one catagory, but ID-11 is good at EVERYTHING!
 

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With costs and quality in mind, ID-11 in a packet to make 5 liters.
 

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If you plan to shoot at box speed: ID11 or Ilfotec HC. If you are pushing: Microphen. That's my top 3...
 

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ID-11
 

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I particularly like Perceptol.

It is a very fine grain developer when used as stock, but as you dilute it the solvent effect is diminished and it becomes maybe slightly less fine grain but sharper. I love using it 1+3 when it behaves a bit like D23...

Seems to work very well with both FP4+ and HP5+, perhaps not suprisingly. I was switched onto it by the late Barry Thornton after reading his book, 'Elements'.
 

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Another vote for Perceptol, but I wish they would make in 5 litre size though.
 

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You buy vast quantities more and they might think about it
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What my 5 or 6 packets a year isn't enough.
I would love to be able to shoot and develop enough film to use vast quantities.
 

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ID11 - in 5L packs it is quite economical

Its the best all round developer (or D76 - its Kodak cousin)

Martin
 

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ID-11 in 5 litre pack. Use dilution 1 + 1. Perceptol is nice, but speed loss may be critical with HP5+, DDX seems to me in contradiction with the word afford in OP.
 
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