Re: Medium format (was: plastic sheets

[Jim MacKenzie <aa279@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, George L Smyth wrote:

> > P.S. - Anyone had good success with HIE in ID-11 1:1?  Mine was really
> > overexposed or overdeveloped.
> 
> Although I've recently switched to Xtol (just developed my first roll of
> HIE with it last night), all my previous work with HIE (except for
> experiments with Rodinal) was done with D76.  My "normal" method of
> working was to meter through a #25 filter at EI 250 and develop with D76
> (ID-11) 1+1 70F 10 min.  Certainly, I deviated from this depending upon
> what effect I was after, as well as the time of year and other factors.
> (images on Web page).

I shot mine through a Cokin 003 (I believe - red, anyway) filter, metered 
through the filter at EI 200 and bracketed five frames at 2/3 stop 
increments.  A few of the shots were usable but they were mostly 
extremely dense, way too dense to print in the case of the one image I 
thought was going to be spectacular (of course).  I used ID-11 1:1 at 20 
degrees for about 11 minutes.

How are you making out with XTOL?  I have started converting to this 
developer but haven't made the final call yet.  I found that my pushed 
T-Max negs (400 at EI 1600, 3200 at EI 6400) were quite underdeveloped 
though negatives in ID-11 1:1 using D-76 times were quite good.  I'm not 
sure if I got a bad batch of XTOL, it got contaminated, or what.  I used 
the recommendations from Kodak in their publication which I got in .pdf 
format off their web page, 1:1 dilution.

Jim

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