HP5+ pushed to 1600 developed in ilfosol 3?

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I took a couple of rolls of HP5+ at 1600 at my brothers wedding at the weekend. I only have rodinal and ilfosol 3 to develop in. Was planning on using the ilfosol for 17mins at 20 degrees for the first roll and adjusting for the second. It's all 35mm from my M6.

Any other ideas? Disaster waiting to happen?

(PS not going to buy another developer for this as I just don't do enough to have 3 bottles on the go! I could try rodinal 1:100 stand for an hour or so though...)
 
I'm staying shushed! Interested to see the results though :)
 
Mahoneyd187 said:
I'm staying shushed! Interested to see the results though :)
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Any ideas are welcome! Mind you it will only be 35mm, none of your fancy medium format. ;)
 
menthel said:
Any ideas are welcome! Mind you it will only be 35mm, none of your fancy medium format. ;)
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Lol, he says, having shot said film with a Leica ;)
 
I use HP5+ at 1600 quite regularly and it does give good results, i prefer them to HP5+ art 400 to be honest. All i can say is, i hope you like contrast :D
 
robhooley167 said:
I use HP5+ at 1600 quite regularly and it does give good results, i prefer them to HP5+ art 400 to be honest. All i can say is, i hope you like contrast :D
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I don't mind a bit of contrast in my black and white. I also have a roll of neopan 1600 to do to. Will be good to compare!
 
I'm shooting some trix at 1600 soon, I'm really interested to see how they compare when pushed.
 
Mahoneyd187 said:
I'm shooting some trix at 1600 soon, I'm really interested to see how they compare when pushed.
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Would be interesting. The only rolls of tri-x I had I cocked up and I haven't got round to buying any more yet. Mind you I am a little wary of trying Kodak film in case unlike it and then they stop producing it! At least ilford film is relatively safe from that!
 
True I guess. I've only shot 1 roll of trix so far but I've got a tonne ready to go, not for anything fun, to "calibrate" my equipment and development workflow. Booooring, but got to be done.
 
Mahoneyd187 said:
True I guess. I've only shot 1 roll of trix so far but I've got a tonne ready to go, not for anything fun, to "calibrate" my equipment and development workflow. Booooring, but got to be done.
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Yeah - get the "craft" side sorted, then you can concentrate on the "Art" bit - definitely the way to go, at least for those lucky people who do have some artistic talent (unlike me :()
 
TheBigYin said:
Yeah - get the "craft" side sorted, then you can concentrate on the "Art" bit - definitely the way to go, at least for those lucky people who do have some artistic talent (unlike me :()
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In that sense I've regressed, I can't push any complicated lighting set ups, risky or active poses because I just don't know if I've missed the shot, or whether the lighting is spot on etc. It's experience I dont have at the moment and confidence I dont have in what I'm using....yet.

It will come, just need to get to grips with my gear and standardising my developing. I may even find I prefer massively grainy high contrast stuff, but I've never shot any of my own, again, yet, so I just don't know. It's easy to find online examples, but it's not the same.

Thinking about developing, whilst thinking about exposure, whilst focusing and working with a model, is hard! It's another artistic factor in what I'm shooting thats the thing. The lighting might look crap shot at 50ISO, but keep it the same and knock the power down, it might be a fantastic shot at 1600ISO with more contrast.

:bang::bang::bang::bang::bang:
 
Iv shot Hp5 at 1600 and developed it with ilsofol 3, I developed it for 18 minutes and it seems to come out ok.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/josh-hunter/6447805797/in/photostream/

This is one of the photos i shot from that roll.
 
If the images are important to you shoot a few frames on another roll and dev that first as an experiment
 
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