Pyrocat HD and FP4

[Angelo di Mango]

Hello everyone,
I have just mixed my first brew of Pyrocat and would like to experiment it with FP4 to start with.
Considering that i do not use a rotary processor, what E.I , what dev. time, and agitation would you recommend?
thank you all for your advice.
Angelo

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

ISO 64, 12 minutes @ 75F, 1:1:100 dilution. Depends on your desired final purpose for the negatives. What size, and what medium are you printing on? If you're going for silver gelatin prints, knock the temp back to 68F. These times/temps are what works for me for Platinum/Palladium printing with large format film. I use the 75F temp because that's about the coolest I can get water out of the tap in the summer, and it's relatively easy to maintain that in the winter in my darkroom ( I do use a Jobo CPA2 for processing, but the times won't vary that much from manual processing).

 

[Loris Medici]

Angelo, have you read Sandy King's article? There are charts for several films (and purposes such as Blue for S/G or UV for Alt-processes)...

See this:
http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/PCat/pcat.html (Article)
http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/PCat/PCat4/pcat4.html (For development times. Use these as a starting guide and work out time / temperature and agitation from there...)

Hope this helps,
Loris.

 

[Angelo di Mango]

Thank you Loris,
I know about these articles , but I've always found that advice from different users are very helpful.
I intend to print on silver gelatin and i use a 6x7 camera and a 4x5 inch view camera.
Thanks everyone.

 

[Loris Medici]

Just test it, you'll be there in a couple of test rolls. Good luck!

 

[Kenneth Lee]

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