Just joining this thread, late, as I thought I had subscribed some weeks ago... I used a number of the formula and procedures that Dignan published many years ago. They were very simple.. The first developer was: Water Calgon - 2.0 grams Metol - 6.0 grams Sodium Sulfite - 50 grams Hydroquinone - 6.0 grams Sodium Carbonate - 60.0 grams I then decided this was a little too much work, so I made up a liter of standard D-76, diluted it 1:1, added 2.0 grams of Calgon and 20 grams of carbonate. Development time was 8 minutes..worked just fine. - Mike -Original Message----- From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jordan Wosnick Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:28 PM To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Emulsion hardening for reversal processing of 35mm B&W film Richard Knoppow wrote: > What reversal formulas are you using? Richard, The formulas I am using are actually based somewhat on posts you made in rec.photo.darkroom over the last few years. However, as a first developer I am using a cobbled-together concoction based on HC-110B 'spiked' with sodium carbonate to increase activity and with sodium thiosulfate as a silver solvent. It works well tonality-wise but your and Nick's posts have got me thinking that I have maybe brought the alkalinity too high with the quantity of carbonate I am using. My rationale in desiging this developer was to use off-the-shelf HC-110 as a starting material and keep the home-brew to a minimum. Ilford's documents on reversal processing basically use paper developer as a base for a reversal first developer, with added thiosulfate as a silver solvent. I was trying to emulate this with my HC-110B brew, using extra sodium carbonate to compensate for the relative weakness of a film soup vs. a paper soup. My permanganate bleach is of a standard formula. Bleach clearing is accomplished with a sodium metabisulfite solution (around 3% w/v) and 'redevelopment' uses a thiourea solution made alkaline with sodium carbonate. This gives a nice cold brown tone on Pan F Plus. I will try cutting down on the sodium carbonate in my first developer and increasing dev time to compensate and will report back on the condition of the emulsion. I realize that modified D-19 or even Dektol are the standard reversal first dev's (as per Richard's many posts on r.p.d) but I would like to get this to work, while avoiding an extra hardening step if I can. Jordan ======================================================================== ===================================== To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.