PhotonTom@aol.com
Date: 09/20/02-11:54:31 AM Z
I recall in the Hutchins' monograph that he likes to use aged PMK stock
(keeping some a year or so and mixing some into fresh). I am about to move
a lose darkroom facilities, but thought of the following: The aging process
is one of oxidation of the pyro/metol and if it is indeed a benefit, how
about using a very-very dilute solution of, say, Potassium Permanganate (a
powerful oxidizer) and on a quantitative basis pre-age (partially oxidize)
the stock... maybe this would make it a PMKP ?
In the meantime I am just about to trash all my HC-110 stock and keep to
the PMK (might play with Rodinal some later).
Cheers,
Tom Crowe
Thomas Crowe Studios-Photographic Arts
"Lost in East Tennessee" (Returning to Southern California)
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