After hearing so much about the sharpness and fine grain of Techpan, I've decided to give it a go in the studio and possibly outdoors. Does anyone have any experience or tips for using TP. Any info is greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.

-- Brian Harvey (bharvey423@yahoo.com), May 15, 2002

Answers

All the comments that I've seen say that you have to develop in Technidol and be careful of excessive contrast, water quality, and agitation techniques.

Look here: 1. http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000Q1K 2. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=technidol&hl=en&selm=teSr4.4321% 24PA2.370692%40bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net&rnum=4 3. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=technidol&hl=en&selm=ugS_4.86402% 24au2.1025242%40news1.rdc1.bc.home.com&rnum=7

There are other threads on photo.net and groups.google.com. do searches there.

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-- Skip Williams (skipwilliams@pobox.com), May 15, 2002.

Tech Pan is very red sensitive. Be sure to test before comitting important pictures to it, or your film may come back woefully underexposed.

-- Steve Wiley (wiley@accesshub.net), May 15, 2002.

Technical Pan expose as ISO 25 develop in Agfa Rodinal diluted 1+100 @ 20°C during 6 minutes

-- Bert Keuken (bkkn@casema.net), May 15, 2002.

Bert, is that 1 part of Rodinal to 100 parts of water?

-- Brian Harvey (bharvey423@yahoo.com), May 15, 2002.

Yes Brian, 1 part of Rodinal plus 100 parts of water. You end up with 101 parts total.

Have tried a number of times some years back, results in very fine grained negs. Expose as ISO 25, bring your tripod or shoot outside with on a bright day!

Agitation: continuously during first minute, then once every 30 seconds.

Success!

BTW, Technical Pan might be too sharp for portraits...

-- Bert Keuken (bkkn@wanadoo.nl), May 15, 2002.

I've used TechPan for a variety of subjects, shot @ ASA 25, & developed in Technidol per Kodak instructions, & the negatives, incl. informal portraits, came out fine. The contrast isn't too high, & the look isn't too sharp (in fact, like Agfa's APX 25, TechPan's ultra-fine grain makes it look *less* sharp than faster, grainier emulsions).

-- Chris Chen (Wash.,DC) (furcafe@NOSPAMcris.com), May 16, 2002.

Hi

Just wondering if anyone had any recipe and procedure for developing Techpan in a rotary processor like a Jobo?

Cheers,

-- Gregory Goh (GregoryGoh@hotmail.com), May 16, 2002.

http://www.jobo-usa.com/jq/jq9903.htm

(scroll down to "Rotary processing Tech Pan film")

P.S. A lot of folks seem to use Photoformulary.com's TechPan developer instead of Technidol; it's cheaper and seems to work just as well.

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-- Micah (micahmarty@aol.com), May 16, 2002.

Thanks very much, Micah - that was great info

-- Gregory Goh (GregoryGoh@hotmail.com), May 16, 2002.