Chinese film

Matt_Bigwood · Post by **Matt_Bigwood** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:13 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

After reading a post by Buze I ordered 50 sheets of Shanghai 100asa film via Ebay, for less than £15 including postage. It arrived today, just over a week after ordering it.

I'm planning on using it for experimentation and improving my technique - has anyone else used it.

I've got quite a lot of X-tol dev left, so I'll use that for development - has anyone else used this combination? I suppose basing the dev times on FP4 should be a reasonable starting point?

Thanks

Matt

robert.fallis · Post by **robert.fallis** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:50 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

I normal work with ortho film, but when I need a bit more speed I use Shanghai and develop it for 8mins in Tetenal ultrafin (1+20), which produces a nice negative, but the film is cheap enough to experiment with.

bob

sandeha · Post by **sandeha** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:01 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

I like it. Dev'ing in Rodinal sometimes, or DDX.

Matt_Bigwood · Post by **Matt_Bigwood** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:56 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Hi Sandeha - I'd be interested to know what dev times and dilution do you recommend for Rodinal?

Cheers

Matt

buze · Post by **buze** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:12 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00

I used 10 minutes for DDX; otherwise now I use Barry Thornston (metol) 2 baths, and I use 7 minutes + 5 minutes for a nice, punchy neg.

I posted (some) times to the Massive Development Chart last year or so..

Also note that the shanghai works pretty well up to 400 too. Haven't tried to push it further, but it behaves really well at that speed, in any case.

Matt_Bigwood · Post by **Matt_Bigwood** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:11 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Thanks for the advice - I based my times on Shanghai 5x4 developed in Rodinal 1+50 (on the Massive Dev Chart) and the negs look great.

Matt

sandeha · Post by **sandeha** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:19 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Matt ... for Era 100, I use Rodinal 1+50, 14 mins in an inversion tube. If I dev it in a roller drum then it's 11.5 mins, plus an extra 50ml of plain water.

That's probably derived from the MDC.