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Indofunk

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Pull or stand develop?
« on: July 01, 2015, 01:47:25 PM »
I just did a filmswap with a friend on Tri-X. He accidentally shot at 200, and not wanting to be outdone, I shot at 200 over it. So we have a really blown out roll of Tri-X. Would I get better results (taming of extreme highlights while still preserving shadow detail) if I pull it one stop in HC110, or by stand-developing in HC110 1:100? I know I like stand developing for pushed Tri-X, not sure how it would look on pulled Tri-X. But I'm also not sure whether pulling a stop in HC110 will only develop the highlights and not the shadows.

Examples would help :)

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Re: Pull or stand develop?
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2015, 02:36:03 PM »
Doing a search on pull processed Tri-X on Flickr, the photos just "look like Tri-X" to me, so maybe I'll just do that. HC110H for 5 min instead of my usual 10.

https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=pull%20process%20tri-x

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Re: Pull or stand develop?
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2015, 03:08:23 PM »
Pulling is probably the simplest thing to do.
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