Dev Time For Ilford Pan 100 and Pan 400 in Xtol

[MattKing]

The lab is Custom Color in Vancouver. They are one of the few remaining labs left there. As for anyone else using the film, as far as I know- they've never seen the film before.

I'm fairly familiar with Customcolor - they do my E6 (through ABC).

You might consider making an enquiry with The Lab to see if they have worked with the film: http://www.thelabvancouver.com/

[braxus]

I'd send to THE LAB if they were close to me, but I live an hour and half out of Vancouver and get my B&W films sent through either London Drugs or Lens and Shutter which both send to Custom Color. Its not practical to drive to Vancouver to get developing done.

[MattKing]

Looking at the information that is available, I note the following:

Ilford gives times (4 minutes) for the films in T-Max RS at 24C.

Kodak gives times for a bunch of their films in both T-Max RS and X-Tol stock at 24C.

The Kodak time for the new T-Max 400 (TMY2) in T-Max RS at 24C is 4 1/2 minutes - which is close to 4 minutes - just a 12.5 % increase over the Ilford recommendation for their Pan films in T-Max RS at 24C.

The Kodak time for the new T-Max 400 (TMY2) in stock X-Tol at 24C is 5 1/4 minutes - which isn't far from 4 minutes - just a 16.7 % increase over the Ilford recommendation for their Pan films in T-Max RS at 24C.

So I would ask Customcolor to use their times for TMY-2 plus 16.6%.

You could do the same sort of comparison and extrapolation with other Kodak films, like Tri-X 400.

[PhotoJim]

The lab is Custom Color in Vancouver. They are one of the few remaining labs left there. As for anyone else using the film, as far as I know- they've never seen the film before.

That begs the other option - if you're going to depend on someone else's lab, shoot film they can readily process. Pan-F Plus, FP4 Plus and HP5 Plus will be routine for them, I expect.