<p>thanks again Jay for your lengthy response.<br> i'll report results after some testing.<br> all the best,</p> <p> gonzalo</p>
<p>Jay,<br> thanks for your detailed response.<br> <br> i can agree with Jay's logic. funnily enough, here in the middle of Turkey,...
<p>hi Jay,<br> Great work!<br> do you have any thoughts about a two bath configuration?<br> from my experience,...
6 stop push... what's that hydrogen peroxide technique some guys use for pushing? ...
Barry Thornton prescribed higher iso films eg 400 for perceived acutance. he compared panf 50 to a 400 speed film ( i assume it was hp5 ) in a...
rodinal 1:100 constant inversions for the first minute, 3 inversion per minute for 3 minutes, then stand with no inversions for 16 minutes....
it may have metol but i'll put money that it's the phenidone-hydroquinone combo that gives the speed increase in diafine. for speed increase...
diafine and metol - metaborate are miles apart. yes, if your interested in doing the comparison, shoot two identical rolls use the same bath...
hi, since your refering to dd23 i'll assume your mixing this from scratch. even with today's thinner films 6.5g to the litre of metol gives...
hi Russ, it's a variation Barry Thornton points out in his last book 'edge of darkness' (?) - its a classic combination ( metol - sod....
hi Russ, since it's a fine grain film i use this version of buetler's divided developer ( biased for sharpness ) bath a....
hi, rodnal 1:250 ( 2ml:500ml ) agitate for the first 30 seconds then leave for 60 minutes... great negs that print on grade 2...
hi, the ratio i was given by an old timer was 1:50. it takes about 20 - 30 secs to cut the alkalinity of the developer down. hope...
the answer is in your question. meter for the highlights ( since the shadows can fall where they may ) tmax 100 was a good suggestion...
hi, i'm using this classic formula and the acutance is amazing but i want more compensation ( zone IX and onwards currently printed...
hi, have been looking to add phenidone to thornton's version of beulter's two bath ... bath A - 6.5g metol...
hi Kevin, fix as per normal. the purple can be washed out by extending the final wash. i use plain water, keep agitating and...
thanks Al, so why is it in bath 'B' ? gonz.
hi, here's the recipe... This formula is from Patrick Dignan's book Classic B&W Formulas. Solution A Sodium Sulfite, 35 grams -...
hi, I'm looking for a recipe for a two bath developer that yields a genuine speed increase ( from box speed onwards )... any...
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