Topic: Home developing Neopan 100

[Nigel]

I've ventured away from my perennial Tri-x and bought some Neopan 100 to take on holiday. I just wondered if anyone has experience with developing it at home and what developer you've had success with? I have Rodinal and HC-110 in stock so your experiences with that (or anything else) would be interesting?

[Urban Hafner]

I've had success with stand-developing in Rodinal 1:100


Patisserie by Urban Hafner, on Flickr

[LeonY]

I have developed neopan 100 and 400 with d76, id11 and rodinal all to great effect. Also tried xtol but did not like it as much as its shelf life was shorter and results were sometimes shit.

[sapata]

Nigel,

I have been using Neopan Across for years... I  guess I have always been a huge fan of the Fuji brand due to the colour emulsions results. Also, Kodak and Ilford in UK seemed to be a more expensive choice to me.

Neopan normally gives me very contrasty negs with Rodinal, either normal or stand development especially in sunlight (not sure if it's the way I' developing...).  As my taste changed through the years I wish I'd tried some other brands in order to get a less contrasty negative.

[Francois]

I only tried Neopan once in my pinhole Diana. It came out nice in HC-110 Dil.B, though contrast might be a bit too high for some people's taste. But still, it printed nice. It doesn't have the same rendition as Kodak's films, so expect a very different look from it.

[Nigel]

Thanks everyone. Maybe I'll give Rodinal a go and see how that comes out. I quite like a contrasty negative so that might work for me.

[Lund]

I can highy recommend Neopan Acros @ 200 in xtol 1+1. At 100 it is gray and bland but with just a little push, the blacks/deep shadow become just gorgeous.

[SLVR]

At 100 i found my neg to be a little flat as far as contrast goes with Xtol. I could see the push punching up the thickness a bit.

[Terry]

Nigel, I just ran a roll of Neopan (Acros) through my Bronica and developed it in HC-110, thinking I'd get finer details.  In fact, I think I like the way it responds to Rodinal better.  I usually soup it at 1:50 and follow the recommended times on the massive dev chart.

[moominsean]

I use d-76 with my acros, works great.

[sapata]

I was looking for an example of a more contrasty neg in my files:

[Miles]

R09 stand like Urban, a great combo.

[olympusOM]

When you said Neopan 100, did you mean Acros, which seems to look good in nearly everything or did you mean Neopan SS, a film I know nothing about?

[moominsean]

SS is only available in 35mm. I've used it but haven't really noticed a difference between it and acros.

[jojonas~]

acros + rodinal 1+100, me gusta!

[Photo_Utopia]

Acros is a great film, very smooth tonally some find it clinical, or you could say modern I like it for certain subjects and the reciprocity characteristics.
The two developers I like are Paterson FX39 which gives very high sharpness and contrast:


I also use it for portraits in Rodinal 1:100 or 18 mins for smoother tonality:


I sometimes low light pus to EI 800 and use Rodinal:


I like the film a fair bit a few years ago I did a little write up:
http://photo-utopia.blogspot.co.uk/2007_04_08_archive.html