Acufine gave me the absolute finest grain when developing. Smooth sharp beautiful negatives! Love it!
@randallstewart1224
Жыл бұрын
Acufine and its companion Diafine (two-bath) date from the later 1960s, a time when many folks were simply nuts to jack up rated film speed at any cost. A used Acufine a couple of times, unhappily on my photos from a hiking trip around Mt. Rainer which would never be able to do again. My negatives on Plus-X were over-developed and printed out looking like grainy coal sludge. (My fault on timing.) Under best of conditions, Acufine is so powerful that the slightest deviation from standard procedure will practically destroy your negatives. You might get a working speed increase of double box rating, but with huge, somewhat mushy grain. (Push Rodinal instead, if you like that image. it's sharper.) Diafine is self-limiting, so it has built-in limitation on blowing out highlights, but the same generally crappy image characteristics otherwise. I'm surprised that either developer is still made, since the speed at all cost mania died out in the 1970s, and both are hugely over-priced today. So, unless you are shooting at night for newspaper reproduction, you can probably do better by random selection of a different product.
@asa1000photography
Жыл бұрын
It's a sensitive developer for sure but it worked well for available light.... back in the day..
@MacShrike
8 ай бұрын
Sooooo. here's me asking: No agitation? Is that for Acufine per se? I have been agitating for Rodinal, Ilford and Kodak Tmax until my arms look like Arnold Swarzenegger.
@asa1000photography
8 ай бұрын
Only for ,Acufine when you are doing a very high ASA like 3200. Everything else gets agitation ! And Merry Christmas!!
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