I am sure that this has been asked 1000 times before, but...

Does any one have some sugested developing times for tri x pushed to 800, 1600, 3200, using D76 1:1.

Just want to play around with it a little and would appreciate any help. I realize that faster B/W is available, but I load this bulk so it is cheep enough to play around with and experiment.

Thanks

Jeff

-- Jeff Riehl (jtriehl@netzero.net), July 06, 2000

Answers

Response to Pushing Tri X

Check the "Massive Development Chart" at http://www.digitaltruth.com

Check Kodak's website.

I can push Tri-x very comfortably to 1600 with Xtol. I haven't gone further than that. Kodak has a very complete development chart to 3200 with their Xtol info. I'd recommend it!

-- Paul Harris (pharris@neosoft.com), July 06, 2000.

Response to Pushing Tri X

This doesn't answer your question regarding Tri-X, but might I suggest you try Ilford Delta 3200 developed in Ilford DDX? It is very fine grained at 1600 and 3200, and has a long tonal scale. It comes in both 35 and 120...you can easily go to 6400 and above with an expected increase in grain and loss of tonality, but far, far less than Tri-X. This is also far superior to Kodak TMax 3200 and comes in 120 as well.

Ilford's web site has a fine printable data sheet on it and an excellent review by Francis Schultz.

http://www.ilford.com/html/us_english/homeng.html

-- Todd Frederick (fredrick@hotcity.com), July 06, 2000.

Response to Pushing Tri X

You will get better results using Acufine or even better, Diafine. Scott

-- Scott Walton (scotlynn@shore.net), July 11, 2000.

Response to Pushing Tri X

As Scott says, you'll do better with a speed increasing developer. Microphen is another one, that I prefer.

-- Tim Brown (brownt@ase.com), July 13, 2000.

Response to Pushing Tri X

Use the times in the Kodak Dataguide...always use 68* (and for ease do not dilute) It works like a charm with decent grain

-- L Sutton Schmitz (LSuttonSchmitz@hotmail.com), August 03, 2000.