I’ve been reading your stand development posts with interest. The results look good… In the XP2 process you mention leaving the film to develop for “approximately” one hour, I just wondered how approximate you were being and whether 54 mins might be near enough or is it closer to 58 etc…? Guess I’m just curious about how much accuracy is required?!
You can read approximately in this case as, ‘well, surely that’s at least been an hour.’ I think I’ve been running close to 65 or 70 minutes, but I don’t think it really matters that much. I think the developer is probably all exhausted before the hour is up, so that extra bit of time likely does little, a bit like leaving film in Diafine B for longer than 5 minutes.
I’ve been playing with stand development myself. My latest “find” has been running TMY-2 in Rodinal 1+100 x 45min. That includes 4 inversions per min for the first three minutes then nothing thereafter. You can see a couple of examples on my flickr page.
Hi Matt
I’ve been reading your stand development posts with interest. The results look good… In the XP2 process you mention leaving the film to develop for “approximately” one hour, I just wondered how approximate you were being and whether 54 mins might be near enough or is it closer to 58 etc…? Guess I’m just curious about how much accuracy is required?!
Cheers Simon
Simon,
You can read approximately in this case as, ‘well, surely that’s at least been an hour.’ I think I’ve been running close to 65 or 70 minutes, but I don’t think it really matters that much. I think the developer is probably all exhausted before the hour is up, so that extra bit of time likely does little, a bit like leaving film in Diafine B for longer than 5 minutes.
Matt,
I’ve been playing with stand development myself. My latest “find” has been running TMY-2 in Rodinal 1+100 x 45min. That includes 4 inversions per min for the first three minutes then nothing thereafter. You can see a couple of examples on my flickr page.
Ron, looks good. The new TMY seems to be good stuff.