
Last Wednesday I was in Seattle. It was cloudy. The temperature was in the upper 60’s (Around 20 °C). I had my Nikon FM3a with the Nikkor 50mm 1:1.2 Lens attached.

I shot Kodak T-Max 400 pushed one stop.

Developing T-Max in Df96 takes twice the time. The time for most films is 6 minutes @21 °C. Df96 is designed with cubic-grain emulsions in mind. T-Max is a tabular grain film, so while you can use Df96, you must increase the development time (https://www.freestylephoto.com/static/pdf/product_pdf/cinestill/Df96_Instructions_Complete.pdf).

So I developed the film at the recommended 12 minutes at 21 °C. Since I pushed the film one stop I also needed to raise the developer temperature to 27 °C (80 °F). I did not do that.


The manager of this high end clothing store checking his window display.
