I accidently exposed a roll of Tri-x at with 200 ISO set on my meter. Since I use D-76, can anyone suggest a development time to salvage this roll? I have some cool buffalo pics in there! Thanks PS Perhaps another developer would work better?

-- Luke Phillips (LP22@hotmail.com), September 17, 1997

Answers

Re: TX exposed at 200

You can either:

1) Process the film normally. They'll be a little dense and contrasty but they should be easy to print using VC paper and filters.

2) Cut maybe 10% off of the normal time to reduce the neg contrast a little.

Either way, they should work OK...

Dana Dana@Source.Net

-- Dana Myers (K6JQ) (Dana@Source.Net), September 18, 1997.

In fact i use TRI X at ISO200 all the time with excellent results and much reduced grain. Many photographers do that all the time. for outstanding results use XTOL developper diluted 1+1 at the recommended time produced on the Kodak publication.

-- lorenzo ward (lorenzophoto@hotmail.com), February 08, 1999.

You couldn't have done better! Grain will be much finer and contrast will be increased somewhat. Do yourself a favor and decrease development time 10% or so to hold back the highlights. D-76 1:1 @68 gives excellent results. Good luck!

-- Walter Massa (Massacam@aol.com), May 22, 1999.