From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 11/26/01-01:19:18 PM Z
Christina,
This is certainly a mileage-may-vary affair. I use the developer as
afterbath with PMK. I don't get as nice a stain without it. I get absolutely
no increase in overall (fb+f) stain with it, even with high-fog films. What
improves with the afterbath--in my lab--is the color of the stain, more
green and less yellow, which is exactly what I want. This is using distilled
water for stock solutions and my well water to dilute them to working
strength.
My strong impression is that no one's staining-developer results can be
assumed to apply to anyone else working in a different lab, different batch
of chemicals/film/water and maybe moon phase. Perhaps I should bottle my
Housatonic Aquifer well water and sell it as a magic tonic for pyro
development...
---Carl
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>From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Dense or Density
>Date: Sun, Nov 25, 2001, 7:05 PM
>
> Don't use the PMK spent developer afterbath as Hutchings recommends; Bob
> Herbst says this only adds non proportional stain which amounts to base plus
> fog and longer platinum printing times. His article appeared in View Camera
> Mag a while back, with all his graphs proving this. I quit doing the
> afterbath and my negs are perfectly stained, and fine.
> Chris
>
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