TX with Pyrocat 1+1+100

Thomas Bertilsson

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• Jun 5, 2006

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Any ideas of start times? Having a hard time finding any.

- Thom

 

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Don Mills

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• Jun 5, 2006

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Hi Thom,

My developing time is 11 min. 68 degrees. I use my homemade rotery processer, and I use vc paper. Might be a good starting point. Good luck, this is a great combo!

Don

 

Will S

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• Jun 5, 2006

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See:

http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/PCat/PCat4/Fig18.jpg

in the article at:

http://unblinkingeye.com/Articles/PCat/pcat.html

Looks like 6 minutes @ 72degrees if I'm reading that right. That is rotary processing though I think.

Good luck,

Will

 

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Thomas Bertilsson

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• Jun 5, 2006

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Hi Don,

thanks for the info. I've done TX with Pyrocat before, but sheets and DBI, so I didn't really pay attention to the time... Now I'm shooting 120 for a while.

Thanks!

Don Mills said:

Hi Thom,

My developing time is 11 min. 68 degrees. I use my homemade rotery processer, and I use vc paper. Might be a good starting point. Good luck, this is a great combo!

Don

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• Jun 5, 2006

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TX with Pyro HD 1:1:100

I have used this combination one time for some informal portraits (35mm).
Using the cameras average meter.
I used the published time for HP5 of 13 minutes, hand developed, initial agitation 10 secs, then agitated 10 secs once per minute. My results where very nice. Although I think they might have had a little to much contrast could have reduced my development a small amount. I printed them on Ilford Multigrade IV FB and was pretty happy with my prints although I had print them darker than I would have liked (lost some shadow detail in prints) to get highlight detail.

It really depend on your technique!!

 

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• Jun 5, 2006

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I use that combo (35mm TX 400) for 10 minutes at 75F. Works great. Small tank. Initial agitation for 60 sec and 10 every minute.

 

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Thomas Bertilsson

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• Jun 6, 2006

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Worked Great

Don,

I tried it out last night, and apart from the fact that my negs need about one more stop of exposure (shadow detail not quite there), it looks like great potential!

- Thom

Don Mills said:

Hi Thom,

My developing time is 11 min. 68 degrees. I use my homemade rotery processer, and I use vc paper. Might be a good starting point. Good luck, this is a great combo!

Don

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• Jun 6, 2006

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Since you are developing with a rotary processor you may want to try pyrocat-P

I think semi-stand works best with pyrocat-hd, but it sometimes streaks in rotary processors. If you aren't using rotary, then definitely try semi-stand.

Best,

Will