Pushing Tri-X TX400 in Acufine - Development times?

[applesanity]

I'll be heading into the studio later tonight and will be pushing Tri-X to achieve a sharp but grainy look. I'll be using 120 film, possibly with polarizers and color filters. I usually pull all my film so pushing will be something new for me. I've been told that Acufine is a good developer for pushing Tri-X, but there is little info available for it. I've searched the Internets, Digital Truth, and the APUG archive and found this much:

-EI 1000: Stock solution, 5 minutes at 21C
-EI 1600: Stock solution, 10 minutes at 21C
-EI 1600: 1+3, 18.5 minutes at 21 C

10 seconds initial agitation and 5 seconds agitation every 30 seconds thereafter.

I think I'll be shooting both EI 1600 and EI 3200 tonight, and I wanted to verify the above info for EI 1600 diluted. Also, what is a good time, dilution, and temperature for EI 3200? My third question is how does the concentration of Acufine affect the negative? Advice would be appreciated; I'm sure I'll learn regardless through trial and error. But trial and error is a very expensive and frustrating thing to learn especially if others are around with the knowledge already. Thanks!

(This question arose from the (there was a url link here which no longer exists). It doesn't apply directly there.)

 

[Anscojohn]

I'll be heading into the studio later tonight and will be pushing Tri-X to achieve a sharp but grainy look.
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Why not just soup it in Rodinal?

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

I rate TX at EI 800 in Acufine, 6.5 min at 68 F, agitating for the first 10 sec. and then about 5 sec. every minute. Rating it at higher speeds just means underexposing, developing for higher contrast, and pretending you're getting more speed that way. You might have printable and even interesting negs, but it isn't really more speed.

A higher dilution will give you sharper grain, but I use it as a tank developer always as stock solution.

Lately I've replaced it with Paul Farber's Acufine substitute, since I can mix that myself, and it seems to work just like Acufine.

 

[Bijesh]

Try Acufine 1+3, 22.5 mins at 21C forEI 3200.

 

[applesanity]

Why not just soup it in Rodinal?

I've done Trix-X with Rodinal 1+100 stand development for an hour as far as EI 6400 with 4 inversions at the beginning.

I just want to try something new with Acufine. Maybe I'll back to Rodinal. Maybe I can give up the Rodinal addiction. Who knows?

 

[Rolleijoe]

Keep your Rodinal going. But you should try Diafine, rather than Acufine for what you're trying to do. Should give you what you're looking for, w/out a lot of fuss.

 

[eric.tung]

I've done Trix-X with Rodinal 1+100 stand development for an hour as far as EI 6400 with 4 inversions at the beginning.

I just want to try something new with Acufine. Maybe I'll back to Rodinal. Maybe I can give up the Rodinal addiction. Who knows?

hi, any scanned image you can share? i have a few EI1600 Tri-X and still thinking whether they should go with rodinal stand dev.
thanks!

 

[pantelis adiavastos]

i develop trix EI 1600 in diafine developer. Grain is good, tonality too... development is 3+3 stupid proof.... i have some samples from 135 and 120 format in my flicker. I have also printed huge prints like 50cm and 80cm in length and it seems superb. the developer also is super economical...

before that i used rodinal 1/50 and 2h stand also. but 6 minutes for 1600 is excelent

some of these days i'll also try d76.