From: wcharmon (wcharmon@wt.net)
Date: 07/17/02-01:13:05 PM Z
Shannon:
If you're still around Houston this summer, I will give you
a 100ml of pyrocat already mixed if you want to try it. That
amount will last sometime. The stuff is SO cheap, I'll give
it away! Let me know off list and I'll arrange some way to
get it to you.
Clay
>
> >I process in straight D-76 in a homemade BTZS-style tube,
> > >at 68 degrees. I am thinking maybe I should make the
> temperature warmer >>rather than making the times longer.
> But, then what will I do if I ever >>have to increase the
> development time further for a low-constrast scene?
> >>(Excuse the cross posting if you read >>the pinhole and
> alt-process lists.) >>
> >>--shannon
> >>
> > D-76 is not a particularly high contrast developer.
> You might have better >results with Kodak DK-50. Start at
> 1:1 dilution. Its a medium grain >developer, about like
> > T-Max RS, that should make no difference for 8x10. For
> higher densities you might have to go to T-Max 400, which
> is capable >of higher contrast and density than HP-5. Even
> with D-76 T-Max 400 will >reach log densities of 3.0.
> >----
> >Richard Knoppow
> >Los Angeles, CA, USA
> >dickburk@ix.netcom.com
>
>
>
>
> You might also try Kodak's D-19, a very energetic
> developer that will give you about as much contrast as
> you can get outside of a staining developer. Zoe
> Zimmerman, whose work was featured in a recent issue of
> View Camera, mentioned at the Large Format Conference in
> Albuquerque that she uses D-19 for negatives she intends
> to print in albumen, which requires a density range of
> 1.8 and above. I don't know if D-19 is still packaged by
> Kodak, but if not you can find the formula in a number of
> sources.
> However, my personal opinion is that to get any snap in
> your print with HP5+ from a really low-contrast scene you
> will be better off with either ABC+ or Pyroca-HD since
> the effective printing DR with these developers will be
> much greater than the actual DR read by a densitometer
> because of the actinic stain.
> Sandy King
>
>
> --
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : 09/19/02-11:11:01 AM Z CST