Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I just thought I'd add a little tidbit to the earlier discussions on Neopan 1600. I found, as others did as well, that I was getting very dense negs when using my Delta 3200 development starting times. I then remembered some earlier posts by Johnny about using XTOL split development. I dug up his posts and pulled out my copy of the 'Film Development Cookbook' and decided to give it a go. Following Johnny's recommendations I developed for about 2/3 of my normal time, followed by 5 minutes in the David Vestal split d-76 soltion B. This appeared to do a very good job of taming the highlights. Following this intial apparent sucess I decided to experiment a bit further. I took a couple rolls of PanF+ I had shot in bright contrasty light and following the same basic steps tried out split Rodinal development. Again, the high contrast seemed to be tamed well. Just something to consider and perhaps play with a bit if you find yourself shooting in contrasty situations with contrasty film. I'm not sure off hand which developers would or wouldn't work well with split development, but it's definately not just D-23 or D-76. Tom Finnegan Seattle