Diafine test shot....

[Greg McCary]

This was taken at 1250ISO on TriX 400 and developed 3min in A solution, 3min in B solution, rinsed, fixed and dried. Not bad. I am impressed with the result. I took it with a Leica m6 and a Nokton 40mm SC.

[photophorous]

Nice shot, Greg. I just received my second batch of Diafine in preparation for some live music shots in a dark club. The first batch lasted over two years. I didn't use it much, but the last film I developed came out very thin, unusually thin even for Diafine, so I decided to replace it. It's amazing how much range you can pull out of contrasty scenes with this developer and Tri-X. Works great out in the sun, if you can stop down far enough.

Paul

[Greg McCary]

Originally Posted by photophorous

Nice shot, Greg. I just received my second batch of Diafine in preparation for some live music shots in a dark club. The first batch lasted over two years. I didn't use it much, but the last film I developed came out very thin, unusually thin even for Diafine, so I decided to replace it. It's amazing how much range you can pull out of contrasty scenes with this developer and Tri-X. Works great out in the sun, if you can stop down far enough.

Paul

Can you use it for any ISO's? Can I develop film that has been shot at 400iso?

[photophorous]

Originally Posted by Greg McCary

Can you use it for any ISO's? Can I develop film that has been shot at 400iso?

I think it is pretty flexible, but I'm not sure how well it would work at 400 ISO. I've never tried that. Based on things I remember reading in the past, I think you'd get very flat results with some blown highlights. Probably usable but not pretty. I think you'd get better results with a normal developer.

From my experience with TriX & Diafine, the most important thing is that you shoot high contrast scenes because it will lower the contrast of anything you shoot. I tried using it in soft evening light and the results were way too flat. Shooting Neopan 1600 or pushing TriX in a normal developer works much better for soft low light situations.

Here's an example of how well it handles contrast...sunlit snow and shadows. This is straight from my scanner, no editing. 1250 ISO, stopped down with a high shutter speed.