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Adox FX39 II
I recently tried a bottle of this developer along side Fotospeed FD10 and found both developers to be good all-rounder's from the few films I have processed with them so far.
I wanted to get away from mixing dry powder film (D76/ID11) developers for a while and I am just experimenting at the moment. FX39 II is claimed to keep much better than the original FX39. https://www.fotoimpex.de/shop/images..._4_MSDS_EN.pdf So far I am quite impressed with new FX39. |
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Keith, is FX39 the brew that is optimized for tabular films? I seem to recall reading about it in Anchell & Troop's book. They said it gave very sharp results, if my memory is working today. What films did you use it with?
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I thought the FX39 would give noticeably coarser grain than FD10 but it seems to be just as fine. There's nothing wrong with D-76 and ID-11 developers, but I am looking at liquid concentrates for convenience. Despite being designed for T-Max, Delta and Acros type films, I wouldn't hesitate to try it with conventional films. |
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Hi Keith, thanks for the feedback.
I had a look at Anchell and Troop's chapter on high-def developers, and there is a whole page devoted to FX-37, incl. a formula. It seems like FX-39 may be similar, but not identical, and is perhaps the commercial version(?) of FX-37 (I can't confirm that). They agree with what you noted - that it is formulated for T-grain films, but works well for non-tabular films also. Might be worth a try at some point. Would be interesting to try with PanF, esp. in 135. I'm presently doing some testing with HC-110 as an alternative to Rodinal, which I wasn't happy with. We'll see how that goes, but if it also doesn't fly with me, then one of these FX versions might be next.
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I have no idea how they compare, I am simply looking for something sold as a liquid concentrate which gives nice clean sharp negatives with fine-grain that are easy to print. |
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Have you ever tried ILFORD's DD-X developer?
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Yes I have Tom. It's a good developer but a little pricey. It's one I may reconsider.
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Yes DDX is good and still a bit pricey so little has changed, except that relative to some other developers such as Xtol it does seem to have remained fairly static in price. It was a favourite of mine until I discovered Xtol which in recent times has got more expensive.
So in comparison to some others I don't think it is as pricey as before. Mike |
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