Professional Practice - Silverbased Test 5

For the  final experiment for this assignment  I wanted to try Adox film. This film was first produced in the 1950's and is an old school type. The emulsion  has a certain special sensitivity "partial panchromatic'  halfway between ortho and true panchromatic.

 Adox film has to be treated slightly differently form the modern day film. The emulsion is quite delicate and has to be handled with a little more care.  When developing, the sheet film has to be pre-soaked for 5 minutes in water which softens the emulsion.

The developer used was Rodinal 09 which is more suited to this film than the Ilford developer I normally use. I used the Paterson Orbital Processor as with the other test previously carried out. I did have a slight moment when the developer came out deep rose colour.

Pre soak 5 mins 20c water temp

10 mins developing 20c

60 Sec just water 20c

5 mins Ilford Rapid Fix 20c

20 mins wash 20c

The samples of this film are below: