Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I won't speak for FP4, but I can for Plus-X. Pushed one stop, you don't get a lot. Push it two stops (and this I was doing with the hydroquinone-loaded Tmax developer) and it becomes a really brilliant film in the highlights. Grain is not bad, even against 400 ASA films. I don't recall is Tri-X pro (TXP, 320) comes in 35mm, but done in Xtol at 68 degrees and 10.5 minutes it does similar wonderful things. Mark Rabiner wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > > > > Hello Mark: > > > > I will be very interested in the results you obtain from FP-4+ in Extol. > > Please let us know. > > > > Roland Smith > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> > > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 10:21 AM > > Subject: Re: [Leica] ReFP-4+ & Plus X pushed one stop > > > > > Christer Almqvist wrote: > ><Snip> > > I've never run FP4 in Xtol, Roland!. > I haven't shot FP4 in a decade. Xtol I've been using for less than 2 years. > I'm sure FP4 would look marvelous in Xtol like most films seem to. > I still have a few left over bricks of 220 Plus x but have switched to Delta 400 > and 100 with both my 35mm and medium format work. > But as Delta 100 does not come in 220 i may still keep stocking and using the > Plus X. > A more brilliant film than FP4 which i think os more strait line. > Smooth and gorgeous for landscapes. > But the "fleshtones" i get with plus x it does not match. > > So if your inclined to use FP4 you'll have to come up with your own time which > you'd get after a trial or two. > > I strongly suggest 1:3. It should look like slow film and be enlargeable to well > over 11x14 before falling apart. > mark rabiner > :) > http://spokenword.to/rabiner/