I've been trying to get the highest contrast available using technical pan. I used d-19 stock for 8 min. @20 c , rated 200, however it came badely overexposed & unpritable. I read in one dev. chart that d-19 1:2 renders higher contrast!How?

Any advice about how to get the contrast I want?

regards

-- ahmad hosni (xosni@gega.net), January 31, 2001

Answers

Have you checked out Kodak's site & recommendations for this film?

To give you a useful answer, we'll need to know:

what your subject is (pictoral, line copy work, etc.)

light source (daylight, tungsten, flash, etc.)

how you are metering.

Give some more details.

-- Charlie Strack (charlie_strack@sti.com), January 31, 2001.

John Sexton reccomends Tech Pan for subjects where you light meter doesn't change when moving over the entire subject. Expose at EI of 25 and develop as you would normal T-Max 100. This will turn a one stop range subject into a seven stop range negative.

-- Jeff White (jeff@jeffsphotos.com), January 31, 2001.