Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/30

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Subject: [Leica] B&W Films/Developers
From: saganicc at MSKCC.ORG (Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics)
Date: Wed Jun 30 08:30:55 2004
 
HC-110 gives greatest density in the highlight areas, usually gives an 
upswept curve.  It definitely is not good for sunny days and high contrast 
films, but outstanding for lower light with subtle highlights; the delicate 
image. This also makes it outstanding for push processing. 
My poor results were always due to improper exposure/development combination 
which is hit and miss with 35mm film.  Pyrocat (I haven't tried PMK yet) has 
been the only developer I've used that will handle anything I throw at it.  
It feels like cheating sometimes.
 
BTW, the Ilford published times for HC-110 are way off for FP4+.  They say 9 
min for dil B.  Others, including myself, have tested proper density at 5 
minutes, which doesn't allow for N- development, so one should start with 
dilution H at about 10 minutes. 

Chris Saganich

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+saganicc=mskcc.org@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+saganicc=mskcc.org@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Wade 
Heninger
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 3:21 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] B&W Films/Developers

> 
> On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 07:55, Wade Heninger wrote:
> 
> > I really dislike HC-110.

Never got good results.  I played around with it for along time.  Everything
was too contrasty.

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