At 1:35 PM +0200 2006.05.05, Manuel Viet wrote:
... <snip>
> My all times favorite general purpose film is the agfa apx 100 and I
>mourn it every day.
I've heard that often, so I decided not to try it and save some grief :)
I have read that Rollei 100 is very similar but this is likely net rumour.
> I've turned to FP4+, good enough, but less 'crisp'. For
>low light situations, I found Tri-X to give exceptional results in all cases.
>As a rule of thumb, I nearly always use Rodinal (I like D76, but it's a pain
>to prepare and stock when living in a small appartement), but over dilute it
>(1+50, 1+75 or 1+100). 1+25 is good to make newspaper illustrations, not
>images ;-)
Tri-X is next on the list to try. I wonder if it will be much longer lived than
APX 100 ...
Thanks for your comments -- a lot to think about!
>PanF is very tricky to work with, I've had way too much troubles with it.
Yes, it seems that there are difficulties. I'll try a bit more, but
experimentally.
regards
Andrew
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