[pure-silver] Re: Fuji film developers

From: Per Ohstrom <ohstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pure-silver] Fuji film developers
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:59:37 +0200

> My photo shop has extended the range of film developers. They
> replaced Agfa Rodinal with Calbe R09, but they now also sell two
> Fujifilm developers, Super Prodol and Fuji Fujidol E. The Fujidol E
> seems to be an ascorbate developer.

Where are you?
Do they carry Fujifilm Ag Guard?
Do they carry Fujifilm enlarging papers?

The story I hear from people in industry is that Eastman Kodak and
Fuji have some sort of secret business agreement as to what to offer
in their export market. It may be that this picture is changing a bit
now... (I hope so!!!)

From: john stockdale <j.sto@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Fuji film developers
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:25:04 +1000

> Ryuji has a small amount of info at
> 
> http://silvergrain.org/Photo-Tech/film-dev-JP-formulae.html

John, you know my website better than me... but my site is
migrating. You probably noticed already, but the destination is the
wiki system. It's making my life a lot easier to edit entries, and
everyone is probably familiar with wikipedia-like user interface.

My site is already wikified, and the old system (static html +
siteframe 3) is being phased out.

I know some of the pages transferred from the old system are still not
formetted well. (Especially, formulae previously in table tags are
currently messed up.) But many pages are already expanded or newly
created.


From: "Dave Valvo" <dvalvo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Fuji film developers
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:48:04 -0500

> I just learned from a friend at EK that Kodak's isoascorbate based
> developer, XTOL, is now available in a 2 litre size, to go with the
> 5 litre and 50 litre sizes.

It's surprising to know that Kodak is still changing the packaging and
not the formulation... I often heard that Kodak didn't have anyone to
work on it, but I somehow doubted it...

From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Fuji film developers
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:16:38 -0800

>    I usually use D-76 1:1 for T-Max (and nearly everything 
> else) but recently have been using Ilford Perceptol for 
> 100T-Max. This produces grain nearly as fine as Technical 
> Pan but without the fussiness in processing. Effective speed 
> is about EI-50. Perceptol and Microdol-X produce rather nice 
> tone rendition, especially on 35mm film where the grain can 
> make the the tone quality rough.

TMX works beautifully in XTOL 1+1 or 1+2, but I feel that I could use
a bit more accutance than that combination produces. DS-2 or DS-12 is
my choice for TMX.

I think the real strength of XTOL type developer is with Plus-X,
Neopan 400, TX, Delta 400 and HP5 Plus. I can make practically
grainless 10x prints from these films. (That is, grainless and very
sharp 20x24 from handheld new Mamiya 6 loaded with 400-speed films.)


Ok, I'll go back and watch de Villepin and Sarkozy on my screen...
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