The Taming of the Retro 80S

[Steffen Alexander]

I'm desperatly trying to straighten the boldly s-shaped curve of the Retro 80s. So far i've tried Perceptol 1+3, Rodinal 1+50 an HC110 dil. H.

With e.g. HC110 for 10 min with 1 inversion each 60 sec i'm getting Zone II logD 0.03 , Zone V logD 0.48, Zone VIII logD 1.58 at EI 64. The results with the other developers are quite similar.

So why bother with this film? Because it would be a nearly grainless IR film with high resolution.

Has anybody found a developer that would provide a 'normal' (i. e. Zone II logD 0.25 Zone V logD 0.7 and Zone VIII logD 1.3) curve with suffucient film speed (EI 50 to 100)?.

[ath]

Welcome to the club.
Have you seen this post by piu: http://www.apug.org/forums/viewpost.php?p=1243617

A49 is on my shopping list to be prepared for next spring...

[Rick A]

Have you tried any pyro developers?

[brianmquinn]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jokerph...7624135178084/