Some pics using my Nikon F, Agfa APX 100, and Extreme Minimal Agitation developing process

[Alfredo Doricchi]

New pics, again using Extreme Minimal Agitation regime, as described in the opening post. Film: again AGFAphoto APX 100. Camera: Yashica Electro 35 GSN, a humble popular camera from '70s with a good lens, in my opinion. The sky was clean this time, no sultriness, no flat sky (this is the place where I live, BTW). Hope you like it, mates.

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[250swb]

That said, I can speak only for myself. In my experience, that's works: when I use Extreme Minimal Agitation regime, I obtain negatives with more acutance and better tonal shift than when I use the "standard" fast regime.

I'd be interested in what you mean by 'better tonal shift'? There are no whites in your photos and hardly anything that could be called a black, so you've compressed the tonal range of brightly lit sunny scenes into a range of greys. So yes the tones are shifted, but I wonder if the technique has become more important than the results?

Very high dilutions of HC110 are most often used for the specific problem of extreme contrast, Ansel Adams for example used the developer this way. But he was processing individual negatives and large format photography is often where these dilutions and techniques come from because they are tailored to each individual negative. As such those techniques don't always cross over into other film formats and it's important to recognise when this is so.

 

[250swb]

New pics, again using Extreme Minimal Agitation regime, as described in the opening post. Film: again AGFAphoto APX 100. Camera: Yashica Electro 35 GSN, a humble popular camera from '70s with a good lens, in my opinion. The sky was clean this time, no sultriness, no flat sky (this is the place where I live, BTW). Hope you like it, mates.

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And again no separation of tones, just grey.

 

[Huss]

New pics, again using Extreme Minimal Agitation regime, as described in the opening post. Film: again AGFAphoto APX 100. Camera: Yashica Electro 35 GSN, a humble popular camera from '70s with a good lens, in my opinion. The sky was clean this time, no sultriness, no flat sky (this is the place where I live, BTW). Hope you like it, mates.

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these are very nice

 

[Alfredo Doricchi]

250swb: in my pics showed here, I see some areas in zone I and IX, almost no areas in zone O or X, so I agree with you on that.
But, in the same pics, you may see probably all the areas in zones II-VIII. This is what I call "better tonal shift" than when I use the standard fast regime.
I.e. the pic of procession: the taller boy's dresses show clearly the area where the sunrays hit the dresses folds, the same for the pants and the sweatshirt of the bearded guy in the middle.
I'm pretty sure if I use the standard fast regime, I would have lost most of those details, because of lower tonal shift of the negative.
You're right, I can't apply entirely Ansell Adams zone method to a 135mm film; but at least I may apply part of the Ansell Adams method to develop my negatives the way to obtain as the most tonal shift as possible (or at least I may try to).

 

[Alfredo Doricchi]

Huss: thank you, mate.

 

[albireo]

Love n. 2 and n. 3! Beautiful photography Alfredo! Regardless of technique. Reminds me of some of the work of Robert Adams.

New pics, again using Extreme Minimal Agitation regime, as described in the opening post. Film: again AGFAphoto APX 100. Camera: Yashica Electro 35 GSN, a humble popular camera from '70s with a good lens, in my opinion. The sky was clean this time, no sultriness, no flat sky (this is the place where I live, BTW). Hope you like it, mates.

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[Alfredo Doricchi]

Albireo: thank you, fellow. This is a big compliment for me, I admire Robert Adams works!

 

[Alfredo Doricchi]

New pics, again using Extreme Minimal Agitation regime, as described in the opening post. Film: AGFAphoto APX 100. Camera: Leica IIIc (1947). Lens: Leitz Summitar 50mm. Notes: a cloudy, windy day in early April, this year (this is the place where I live, BTW). Hope you like it, fellows.

 

[Eric Rose]

Beautiful images and a lovely place to call home!

 

[Alfredo Doricchi]

Eric Rose: thank you so much, mate!

 

[Alfredo Doricchi]

New pics, again using Extreme Minimal Agitation regime, as described in the opening post.
Film: AGFAphoto APX 100. Camera: Yashica Electro 35 GSN. Notes: late evening, after a thunderstorm, a few days ago (this is the place where I live, BTW).
Hope you like it, fellows.