HP5+, Perceptol and acutance

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I know that film/developer combinations are a personal and subjective choice. Generally, I really like the quality of the negs I get using HP5+ in Perceptol at 1:1. Fine grain, good tonal range and great shadow detail. It's not that the acutance is mushy, but I'd like to hear from anyone else who uses this combo and about what paper/chemistry you use to print.

Thank you all.

Jeff

-- Jeff (debontekou@yahoo.com), February 08, 2001

Answers

I worked as a newspaper photographer for several years. In that time I must have processed a mile of film. (a 100 foot can of HP5 would last about 2 weeks.) I relied on Perceptol, but I used it at the 1:3 dilution. (There really was NO money in photography where I was). I came to trust it implicitly. I've been away from that for about 15 years, but last week I dug the stuff out and ran a roll of 120 HP5, I couldn't have been happier with the results. Perceptol gave me the most consistant results of any developer I tried.

-- Dave (mitchdaw@idirect.com), February 17, 2001.

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