From: Steve Shapiro (sgshiya@redshift.com)
Date: 09/21/02-12:23:48 PM Z
If you are looking for an additive to fully render negative development and
improve local contrast in prints to achive a longer contrast range in the
silver gelatin photographs, and if your are not happy with Kodalk, try
"Shap's Bal. Bitz." available through the Photographer's Formulary. I would
be interested in your opinion(s) of results.
S. Shapiro
----- Original Message -----
From: <PhotonTom@aol.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: Pyro after-bath
> I have just again started using PMK pyro [my last foray into pyro was as a
> youth over 40 years ago (!) doing ABC pyro by inspection (!!) on 4X5
> Agfapan]... I also thought of using carbonate or the like if indeed the
stain
> increase is due only to alkalinity. I tried using the Kodalk (metaborate)
> also, but find it stubborn to dissolve.
> I do use Kodak Hypo Clearing Agent, which is proprietary but I believe I
have
> read does contain metaborate. On the "KISS" principle maybe I'll just
wash
> a long time after the clearing agent bath.
> In any case my first tests with Tri-X and Arista films have me once
> again excited by B&W...the negatives just print so nicely...no blocked
> highlights and the prints, even quick proof enlargements, have a wonderful
> quality.
> I have another thought on PMK and will post it to a new thread (Pyro:
> aged stock)
>
> Cheers,
> Tom Crowe
> Thomas Crowe Studios-Photographic Arts
> "Lost in East Tennessee" (Yearning to return to Southern California
> again)
>
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