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pushing tri-x/tmax; how do you develop?

from Justin Indyk (indyk@pharm.sunysb.edu)
Hi!

I'm still trying to understand this "pushing" process, both in terms of taking photos and in developing. Let's say I want to take photos of an inddor party with 400 film (without using flash), basically I'll have underexposed all my shots, right? (My nikon n65 has no manual ISO setting, so I'll set my camera on -1 EV for the entire roll).

Now, when I go to my darkroom to develop it, I want to develop at 800 (or I could do -2EV and develop at 1600, if I want, although I'll get more grain, right?). In looking at the Kodak Technical Publication F-32 for tmax films (a pdf available at the kodak web site), it seems that the developing times for one stop push are the same (at least using D-76, which is what I use). Isn't the developing time supposed to increase for push processing, or is this supposed to be confusing?

And I take it there aren't any additional changes in the protocol for stop bath, fixing, etc.?

Thanks for your help! Justin

(posted 8449 days ago)

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