"X" Films...125PX in Diafine!

[Figital Revolution]

Yet another film in the Diafine saga for the purposes of Scanning. I have just posted on my web site: www.figitalrevolution.com an article on this AMAZING film combo and thoughts on it and TX...the "X" films. I have also included two sample images with enlarged crops and processing times. Love to hear your thoughts here or there!

Direct Link:
http://figitalrevolution.com/2008/04...px-in-diafine/

Cheers-
Stephen Schaub

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Plus-X looks amazing in any developer.

Diafine is pretty cool stuff. Makes things simple.

- Thomas

[Daniel Balfour]

Stephen,

I tried Diafine after reading your posts both here & your blogs on FR. I must say I'm rather disappointed. In my testing of Diafine with Tri-X (rated anywhere from 800 to 6400) all I got were "grey" negatives, reminiscent of Rodinal.

That's what I hate about "compensating" developers. It's all mid-tones, barely any highlights at all.

X-Tol on the other hand.... OMG there's a marriage made in heaven!

Just my observation. Love your stuff though. You rock!

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Daniel,
When you print or scan your Diafine or Rodinal negatives - what are the results? I get very good results and punchy highlights with both of those developers.
- Thomas

[Figital Revolution]

Using Diafine with just about any film will result in a very linear film curve...this is normal and at first open in PS the image looks flat with really open shadows, tons of midtones and gray highlights...just apply a "S" curve in curves and perfect...you decide on the amount of contrast and highlight/ shadow pop you want. Scanners are linear devices and having a neg with open shadows helps esp on lower end scanners.

Cheers-
Stephen