[pure-silver] Re: Favorite Print Developer

I've standardized on Ilford's Bromophen—a reliable, neutral-tone developer.  It 
seems less prone to giving a greenish cast to warm-tone papers than Dektol.  It 
also seems to have a bit better tray and storage life than Dektol, though that 
may be my imagination.  In the past I have used Ilford's Multigrade and PQ 
developers, Dektol of course, and Ansco 130.

--Ben


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From: "ERoustom" <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 9:02:00 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [pure-silver] Favorite Print Developer

I've used four developers so far: Ilford MGD, Silvergrain Tektol  
(Standard & Neutral), Sprint Silverfast, and Dektol. Ilford MGD was  
fine, good all-around. Silvergrain was very finicky about room temp,  
and even though I like it's lack of poisons and pollutants, I can't  
say got the most out of it. I should really try it again someday, but  
I'd be curious what others think about it. Sprint really does give a  
neutral to cold black, but doesn't give me the range of tones that  
Dektol gives (or maybe that's my imagination). Dektol seems to be my  
favorite. To my eye it makes a rich and warm black, it's cheap, and  
it's forgiving on room temp. What about you?

Elias
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