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Your favourite film + developer combinations

anyone

Well-known member
Hi all,

I do see a lot of activity in the 'fun with medium format FILM images' thread, and I wondered if you'd be willing to share your favourite film + developer combinations?

Mine are:
Delta 100 + DD-X
Tri-X + Amaloco AM74 (works also nicely for pushing)
Chinese lucky films + Amaloco AM74
Tri-X + Rodinal (not for pushing)

How about you? :thumbup:
 

pegelli

Well-known member
Not medium format, only 35 mm; but for me it's FP4+ and HP5+ both developed in Microphen. FP4+ pushed to iso 200, HP5+ to iso 800 or 1600.

Other film used is Delta 3200 and other developer ID11, but neither of these are as satisfying for me as the combinations mentioned above.
 

anyone

Well-known member
I see there are several people here using Pyro - is there a possibility to buy it 'ready-made' or are you mixing it yourself? I'm always a bit reluctant to mix by myself, that's why I didn't try it so far.
 

Oren Grad

Active member
I see there are several people here using Pyro - is there a possibility to buy it 'ready-made' or are you mixing it yourself? I'm always a bit reluctant to mix by myself, that's why I didn't try it so far.
If the issue is that you'd prefer not to mix from powders, the Photographers' Formulary offers some pyro variants in liquid concentrates as well.

EDIT: Sorry, I see that you're in the EU. International shipping from the Formulary may be a problem.
 

MartinN

Well-known member
Here comes an oddball, not a favourite.

I was not happy with the shelf life of super low contrast developers and the obsolete supply of technidol.

So I experimented and got usable results from Ortho(lith) film (super high resolution and extremely low grain) in very diluted Kodak HC-110. Not optimal but shelf life is good.

For me Shelf life is most important and small one-shot packaging another.
I also prefer small bottles instead of powder bags and eventually breathing some powders. I found Agfa fix in 120ml small bottles. Then I divide HC-110 also into small bottles. Sadly the 4x5 ortholith stock was discontinued from Macodirect. That was a dream combination : 4x5 and ortholith.
 
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