[Leica] Recommendations for film and developing

[Nathan Wajsman]

This is of course a question of taste as much as anything else. Lluis and I have recently discussed film choice and have agreed that the classical emulsions like Ilford HP5+ are really worth shooting for tonality and “je ne sais qoui” factor of film. For slower film, I use Fuji Acros—this was also my choice of film back when I was shooting exclusively that, prior to 2008. In fact, most of the same films that were around back  then are still available today.

As for developers, I use ID11+ for most things, and recently I have also experimented with stand development in Rodinal 1:100 and films like Fomapan 400. Lluis uses mostly XTOL which was also my favourite developer back then, but my problem is that the 1 liter size is no longer available, and if I make 5 liters (the only size still available) I will end up wasting most of it. That is why I stick to ID11+ (or D76) for most things, as those are available in 1 liter sizes.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

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> On 27 May 2018, at 05:09, Howard L Ritter Jr <hlritter at twc.com> wrote:
> 
> After at least 15 years away from the darkroom, I’m going to shoot and develop a few rolls of B&W with the M3 or the R9. I don’t know what might have changed in that period, and of course I’ve forgotten a lot of what little I knew. I see a number of posts from regular users of film, so I see a resource here on the LUG. You know who you are, Lluis, Jim, Nathan...
> 
> Any recommendations for film and developer/dilution/technique? Some will be daylight and some available light, I expect.
> 
> —howard
> 
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