Some thoughts on pushing film

[presspass]

I've had good luck with Tri-X/Arista at 1600 in D-23 1:1 as well as Xtol and Diafine. With D-23, it gets a bit contrasty, but can be wet printed on grade 2.5 to 3. The times I've used are 16 minutes at 68 degrees f. You do have to make it yourself, but there are only two ingredients. Xtol also works well at 1:3 - use Anchell's times in the Film Developer Cookbook and, if you want, do it semi-stand for 1.5 times the recommended. The negs are a bit more flat, but print and scan well.

 

[michaelbsc]

What do you mean with 'rotary'? You reuse the DDX? It says it's one-shot on the bottle and did not want to experiment and mess up my films.

I have a Phototherm, but I recently bought a Jobo so I could move to 5x7, 8x10, and 11x14 negative sizes. The Phototherm is limited to 4x5 and roll film.

I do *NOT* reuse DDX. I use it one shot at 1+5 instead of 1+4. I use pretty much the Ilford recommended times with slight dilution to compensate for continuous agitation. Otherwise the development time is really short for Plus-X.

NOTE: I may have bought the JOBO, but I haven't had a chance to figure it out yet. So I really don't know much about it.