i hope leica buys ilford!

[Craig_Cooper11664875449]

David<p>

<i>As far as I know, this is true for everything except Metol/Elon and Hydroquinone. These are proprietary chemicals, and are only manufactured by Kodak and Ilford (If I'm wrong, please let me know what common substitutes are available).</i>

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Metol and Elon along with a bunch of names <i>(LIon, Genol, Graphol, Photo-Rex, Pictol, Planetol, Rhodol, Satrapol, Scalol, Verol, Viterol)</i> are trade names for reagents characterised by the following compounds:

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Monomethyl-p-aminophenol sulfate<br>

ji-hydroxymethylaniline sulfate<br>

4-methylaminophenol sulfate

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These are not specific to EK or Ilford. Hydroquinone can also be found as:

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Hydrochinon<br>

Hydrokinone<br>

Hydroquinol<br>

Quinol<br>

p-dihydroxybenzene<br>

1,4-dihydroxybenzene<br>

1,4-benzenediol<br>

Tecquinol

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Another often used reagent is Phenidone or Graphidone to represent the compound l-Phenyl-3-pyrazolidinone. This is used in developers such as approximations of Xtol stock solution.

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750ml distilled water<br>

60gm Sodium Sulfite<br>

4gm Sodium Metaborate<br>

13gm Sodium Ascorbate<br>

0.15gm Phenidone<br>

3gm Sodium Metabisulfate<br>

add distilled water to make 1 ltr

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regards<br>

Craig / Beijing

[EricM]

Why the hell would anyone want one losing company to buy another? So you can watch both cherished firms go down together? Just great.

[red dawn]

Hi

 

Leica have better things to do than to worry about buying Ilford, like for example, worrying how to save itself from a similar fate in the digital age......

[bob haight]

At least we know that film will be around for another 40ish years. Had me worried there.

[david dutchison]

Craig Cooper

 

"Metol and Elon along with a bunch of names (LIon, Genol" ...

 

Thanks Craig, I've saved that post for future refrence.