This
new interest in lugging my Nikon F5 around with me has also reunited
me with a long time favorite film Agfa APX 100. I cannot remember
exactly the last time I used this film but I do know it was back in
the days when I regularly used ether ID11 or PMK Pyro. I still have
both these developers on the shelf in powder form. Which led to a bit
of a dilemma once the new roll ofAPX was ready for developing. Should I make up a new batch of these old friends to keep the look of the negatives the same or go with the current ones???.
I chose to go with RO9 partly because I wanted to see what sort of negative it would produce with the APX.
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| Agfa APX negatives developed with RO9 special. |
Before starting I made up a litre of fresh stop, fix and 300 mls of developer. I processed the film for the suggested thirteen minutes. The time counted down, as I poured out the developer, I was shocked to see this black liquid fill the measuring cylinder what the Hell! My first thought was that all the emulsion had come off, stupid I know but it always interests me what thoughts come into your head when things take you unaware. Needless to say that when I looked at the negs after they were fixed, all was OK. The negatives are nicely toned. I am not sure yet how grainy they are as Ro9 tend to be more grain than ID11.
