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Bellini FX6a Monobath Black & White Developer & Fix in a Single 1lt Bottle!

Name: Bellini FX6a Monobath Black & White Developer & Fix in a Single 1lt Bottle!
SKU: BWMONO
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.80 (5 reviews)

Rated 4.80 out of 5 based on 5 customer ratings

£14.99 Inc. vat

Bellini FX6a Monobath was originally formulated by Bellini at the request of a customer who travels a lot worldwide, made so that he could easily process Ilford FP4+

In all honesty, I have never been a fan of monobaths, mostly go as they have not produced very nice results, usually lacking in contrast and detail. This, though, has proven to be very much the exception to that rule, to the point that 50% of our original testers came back asking to buy more!!

When first formulated Mr Bellini very kindly sent us a few bottles which we passed onto trusted customers to play with and the results you see here are mainly based on their terrific efforts.

The best description really comes from those guys and from customers, and there are people who have used this and just stuck with it so scroll to the foot of the page and see the reviews 😉

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SKU: BWMONO Categories: B&W Chemistry for Resale, BelliniFoto Photographic Chemistry, Black & White Chemistry, Black & White Film Developers, Film Developers, Liquid Black & White Film developers, Wholesale Analogue Photographic Supplies at Nik & Trick Tag: #Monobath

Bellini FX6a Monobath is an all in one film developer and fix for black and white films, it’s proven very popular

The balance between developing, fixing and clearing a film seems to occur as a rule of thumb past the eight minute mark, the longer you go the thicker the negative of course so timings given are by way of an advisory….but it’s black and white so there is a lot of latitude to play with.

What follows are the times established by those testers but more are available now on the Massive Dev Chart

Fomapan 100 Stock 8’20 – 9’30 20C

Ilford FP4 125asa Stock 8’00 – 9’00 20C
Ilford FP4 125asa 1+1 10’00 20C
Ilford HP5 400asa Stock 8’00 20C (Farnan)
Ilford HP5 400asa Stock 9’30 20C (Anley)
Ilford SFX 200asa Stock 8’00 20C

Kodak Tri-X 400asa Stock 7’30” – 8’00 20C

Kosmo Foto 100asa Stock 8’10 – 9’10 20C

Orwo N74 Stock 10’30 – 11 20C

Rollei RPX25 Stock 8’00 20C

Storage: We have stored it for months in an opened bottle and it still produced results, but we reckon that vacuum storage should be considered the mandatory method for this but are open minded for you to tell us better!

Weight	1.11 kg
Dimensions	11 × 11 × 25 cm

5 reviews for Bellini FX6a Monobath Black & White Developer & Fix in a Single 1lt Bottle!

Rated 5 out of 5

Andrew Pettit (verified owner) – 14th September 2020

Love this stuff, been using the same bottle with multiple different films for close to 5 months now and it’s still going strong,
Rated 5 out of 5

Mark Kelsall (verified owner) – 29th March 2021

This developer helped me back into photography. I am using this almost like polaroid for medium and large format. This monobath makes it economical to develop a single 5×4 sheet, unlike single shot developer. It means I can go take a shot of something, come back home and see the results fast! Also useful for making the end result a bit softer, much like a physical / chemical photoshop.
Rated 5 out of 5

Matthew Studden (verified owner) – 12th April 2021

I have just developed my first roll in this and it’s amazing. I have been using the Cinestill mono bath for quite a while now and this Bellini version is so much better. Lower temperature too. Shanghai GP3 100 for 8.30 minutes. 30 seconds agitation at first then 10 seconds every minute
Rated 5 out of 5

Theodor Ivanov-Modev (verified owner) – 11th April 2023

Fantastic product, I’m absolutely in love with it! It could do with a better info sheet but I use it with both cubic and T-grain style films and it works flawlessly. I’d also recommend ~ 9 mins for cubic grain and doubling the times for tabular grain, at least that worked for Delta 100 @ 20 C/18 mins.
Rated 4 out of 5

Shaun Smith (verified owner) – 10th July 2023

I bought this as an easy reintroduction to home processing after a break of several decades. It’s easy enough that I can process a roll in my lunch break. Being virtually odour-free is a major bonus when processing in the bathroom. The results are quite soft using the timings in the massive database. Tinkering with timings may increase contrast but, if that’s important, I would use something else, or adjust in the computer afterwards (but that only works up to a point).
This allows me to use standard film almost like Polaroid, it’s so fast, clean and convenient. It has found a permanent place in my photography toolkit
- Richard – 29th December 2023
  
  Good words. This monobath beats most on contrast but the payoff is a high ph, at 13 it’s up there with neat Rodinal.
  
  It was originally designed for Ilford FP4+ but has produced great results with film of equal build quality. Monobaths are a compromise so won’t suit all films, we can see that when used with some fims inc budget films contrast may not be as good as normal development methods…we do actually recommend those methods.