From: Larry Roohr (larry.roohr@attbi.com)
Date: 02/02/03-01:05:17 AM Z
Sandy,
John Sexton came up with a gizmo he called a 'slosher' for his 4x5 negs.
Of course that means he sloshed them once in a while, but he had very
good results for handling extreme contrast, I dont recall anything about
adjacency effetcs though. It was just a plastic frame that sat inside
the developing tray that you could jiggle once in a while and move the
film and developer around a bit, it must have done a better job than
just rocking the tray or I doubt he'd have bothered.
Larry
Sandy King wrote:
> Steve Shapiro wrote:
>
> > For stand development it is important to find developerd designed for
> > that.
> > I use the D 23 simply metol and SOD sulfite (100g SOD sulfite 7.5g
> > metol)
> > and let stand for from 4 to 28 hours. Any speed any exposure, it all
> > develops in a no fail, full range consistency.
> >
> > P.Cat, I count on for expanded negatives, only. Developing by
> > inspection is
> > now my process without hesitation except for the stand development
> > with roll
> > film, for me.
> >
> > to each his own.
> >
>
>
> Glycin based developers are often mentioned in the literature as being
> very good with stand development. I tried several different formulas
> based on Glycin but did not get any better results than with a very
> diluted solution of Pyrocat. Others have told me that a very dilute
> solution of Rodinal will also work well.
>
> But if you have never experimented with stand development it is worth a
> try if only for the educational benefit of seeing what kind of look you
> can get with extreme adjacency effects. It is kind of like using the
> unsharp mask with Photoshop.
>
> Unfortunately I have never managed to get good results with sheet film.
> Wonder how Atget managed to make such good negatives with stand
> development? He did use sheet film or plates did he not?
>
>
> Sandy King
>
>
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