Ornano Gradual ST-20 Film Developer ~ Possibly the best Developer Out There!

£3.50£17.25 Inc. vat

Ornano Gradual ST-20 Film Developer was revived from the dead in 2021 by BelliniFoto together with Nik & Trick Photo Services.

Once a very popular product, especially in the USA but not seen until then, for over 18 years Gradual ST20 is now starting to regain that momentum as being potentially one of the top three b&w developers currently available.

It’s complex high energy phenidone based formula has excellent utilisation of film speed, tolerating underexposure of one stop or more ie it’s good for pushing films even when using prolonged development times.

That formula also makes it especially suitable for high-speed films or film shot where poor ambient or artificial lighting is used but also great for films intended for widespread subject matters such as fashion, fine art, reportage, architecture, micro and macro photography.

A developer that makes for very good physical prints and strong enlargements in the darkroom, as well as lovely detailed scans.

Without fail, results invariably prove to be absolutely outstanding and as people share those on social media the realisation that this new Gradual ST-20 builds on the reputation of it’s former self is happening.

For those that expect expect the finest results from their black and white films are coming back for more as they concur with our own findings and agree that this could be the best out there.  We rate it over and above the might DDX.

We have found it to be specially good with Tmax 100 & 400, Shanghai GP3, Rollei Infra-Red and folk are loving it when used with Foma and Ilford films too.

If you’re not sure yet then we also decant the odd bottle down into sample sized bottles for you to try…seriously, give it a go, you stand to be amazed! 😉