From: Victor Loverro (victor.loverro@verizon.net)
Date: 02/02/03-01:22:28 AM Z
For plans to make your own "slosher", see Phil Bard.
http://philbard.com/panel.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Roohr" <larry.roohr@attbi.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: Stand Development
> 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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