Steve Shapiro (sgshiya@redshift.com)
Tue, 18 May 1999 17:39:13 -0700
Subject: Re: Ilford
> LukaCA@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > I have recently purchased a 12 x 20 camera. Previously, I was shooting
4x5
> > or 8x10 and using Kodak's T-max films in conjucntion with the old D-23
> > developer. I found this combination worked well for my process of
choice,
> > Pt/Pd. Kodak does not make any 12 x 20 film, as I am sure you are all
aware.
> > I have found three options. Ilford FP4 and HP5, along with the new
Lotus
> > 200 film. I have no experience with any of these films and would like
to
> > hear any suggestions on film developer combinations.
>
C. Weese replied --
> For all three of these films in 12x20 and 7x17 my developer of choice is
> PMK pyro.
-- snip --
>BPF is a middle ground,
> very adaptable, speed around 64 to 80. The safest approach to processing
> these big sheets is to do them one at a time in a tray. Given the number
> of sheets you shoot in huge sizes, this is less tedious than it sounds
> <s>.
>
>I haven't found a particularly pleasing
> "standard" developer for BPF partly because its response to pyro is so
> good it hardly seems worth the trouble to find an alternative.
>
>
> ---Carl
>
I found BPF very responsive to every developer I tried. It is much slower
than rated, however; we must bear in mind film speeds are based on coating
layers by chemical engineers and not trials by photographers.
S. Shapiro
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