More regarding The weekend's practice & testing

..In article ,
.. (Collin Brendemuehl) wrote:
..
.. I did a couple of practice/test 8x10 shots with the Fujinon 250/6.7.
..
.. The subject was my wife's trinket display on a small shelf,
.. about 6 ft. from the camera.
..
.. Even wide open this lens provides a good deal of movement with 8x10.
.. I had a 1" rise (& shooting vertical/portrait mode) with no notable
.. light fall-off.
..
.. Also, I shot some more of the Bergger 200.
.. Results were excellent giving it 1/2 stop extra exposure
.. developing in T-Max developer, 1+4 dilution, 7 minutes @ 70f.
.. Much better results than HC-110.
.. (Interestingly, a local street photographer does his 35mm Fuji Acros
.. in T-Max developer with similarly excellent results.)
..
.. Collin
..
..When you say the T max developer produced better results,
..what do you mean? Explaining your findings would help those
..who may not have experience with comparing the two results.
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(I would have replied earlier but for the slow updates from Google,
so another thread begins.)

Thanks for pointing that out, George.
While my observations are simply visual and from a beginenr,
I hope they're useful.
The T-max developer seems to produce a little better contrast and smoother
mid-range tones, than did HC-110 with the Bergger film.

Comparatively, the results look very much like the results my
Father-in-law gets when using HP-5+ in HC-110.

It seems that b&w results are largely a matter of taste
(as so much of this process seems to be),
but this suits my tastes very nicely.
The other suggestion of 75 deg. F may also be tried in the near future.

Now, if only Bergger wasn't so hard to handle! It's so very thin!

Collin