t-max 100 with id-11

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i recently bought some 10 rolls of t-max 100 and a 5 litre package of id-11 developer for that. Now i have gone through this site and manufacturers help pages trying to find out what would be the best kind of mix from the developer in order to get the best out of the film ? Seems that there is a very wide variety of ways how to use the same developer. I am after getting a negative with the most less grain and tonal scale as long as possible.

Juha

-- Juha Sompinmäki (jsompinm@levi.urova.fi), January 30, 2001

Answers

Try different things and see what you like and what works for your system. I develop in D:76 (same as ID-11) 1:1. If you want more contrast use the developer straight. If you want less, you could reduce the agitation. If your negatives are thin, you could increase the development time or increase exposure; vice versa if they are too dense. Take a look at the "Massive Dev Chart" for starting development times with different developers.

-- David Goldfarb (dgoldfarb@barnard.edu), January 30, 2001.

I have been developing my films almost always with 1 + 1 mix of developer, i'm not sure but from somewhere i picked that in this kind of way you get finer grain than if you would be using just straigh stock solution only. How the film will react if i'll do 1 + 2 or 3 ? Does it have other effects than longer developing times ?

-- Juha Sompinmäki (jsompinm@levi.urova.fi), January 30, 2001.

TMX is a bit low in acutance, so I've found it very worthwhile to use D-76/ID-11 at the 1:3 dilution rather than 1:1. TMX in D-76/ID-11 gives a relatively straight-line curve shape of long-enough scale that if you were to actually use the entire straight-line section you'd exceed the range of any paper by about seven to eight stops.

Once you find a working time for ID-11 1:1, try it at 1:3 giving 1.5X the 1:1 time as a starting point.

_Do not underagitate_!

-- John Hicks (jbh@magicnet.net), January 30, 2001.


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