Can anyone suggest times for developing Kodak Tri-X pan (35mm) in "Ilford Plus Developer Ilfotec LC-29"? I believe this developer is also called "Ilfotec HC-D" (correct me if I'm wrong).

I've searched Usenet and the WWW, I've checked the ilford data sheets, and I've tried the "Massive dev chart", no help.

-- Christopher Biggs (chris@stallion.oz.au), September 26, 1999

Answers

I'll answer my own question, since nobody else did. Extensive search of printed and on-line information gave no answer. Ilford Australia's email address bounces. I looked at times in different developers for Tri-X, and came up with 9 minutes at 1+29 dilution. Since my tap water comes out at 24C at the moment, I fudged this to 6.5minutes, using Ilford's temperature correction chart. I'm happy with the result---I got good looking negs.

-- Christopher Biggs (chris@stallion.oz.au), October 07, 1999.

About the same as HC110.

-- Lot (lotw@wxs.nl), October 07, 1999.

Can anyone elaborate on the differences between "Ilfotec HC" and "Ilfotec HC-D/Ilfotec LC-29", and their similarity with HC-110. It would seem that Ilfotec-HC and HC110 are quite similar, and are diluted similarly. LC-29 seems to be shipped in a more dilute form, but it's exact relation to these other two products is unclear to me.

-- Christopher Biggs (chris@stallion.oz.au), October 07, 1999.

Ilfotec HC is 8/5 stronger than LC: 1+19 LC gives the same results as HC 1+31, which is about equal to HC110/B. So with LC1+19 you can follow the prescriptions by Kodak for Tri-X in HC110/B.

-- Lot (lotw@wxs.nl), October 07, 1999.