[pure-silver] Re: PMK
- From: Eric Nelson <emanmb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:01:56 -0700 (PDT)
Good point.
Photography by it's nature invites close inspection
and, for those of us involved in the process, we tend
to really inspect the image for all it's aspects.
Perhaps too much weight is given to this but I think
we approach these things as to what pleases us and
acheives what we're looking for or what technical
specs we idealize.
--- "Justin F. Knotzke" <jknotzke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <quote who=Jim MacKenzie] date=[27/04/2006 15:23/>
>
> > PMK is cheap and it lasts a long time so even if
> it were no better and
> > no worse than anything else, I'd find it to be a
> good addition to my
> > arsenal.
>
> From what I have read, it's best used with older
> films like FP4
> etc.. Not so much with Delta 400 and 'newer' films.
> Has this been your
> experience?
>
> The more I shoot, the more I start to realize
> that is what's most
> important to me in a film developer is (in order)
>
> 1) Speed
> 2) Shelf life
> 3) Grain
>
> Because in all honesty, and I might get spanked
> for saying this,
> while there is a difference between say Rodinal and
> DDX (thanks snoopy)
> using a MF camera and printed at 8x10, I can't see a
> huge difference and
> my girlfriend didn't know what the hell I was
> talking about when I said
> there was more grain in the Rodinal shot. She was
> too busy looking at
> the picture!
>
> The more I shoot and print, and the more I show
> my prints to people,
> the more I realize that 99.9% of what people notice
> is the image, not
> the grain, sharpness or tonality. The vast majority
> of that comes when
> you snap the image.
>
> Maybe I am wrong, correct me if you think so. But
> that's my impressions.
>
> What most concerns me is loss of film speed. I
> need that speed since
> I hand-hold a Hassy and I tend to shoot inside, near
> windows or when the
> light is best (dusk/dawn).
>
> Shelf life: only because I've been burned by
> XTOL and once by a DOA
> bottle of DDX.
>
> So when I read all about PMK I think to myself:
> "5% difference
> between it and the other and of that for a total of
> the .1% difference
> that developer makes in the total image output.
>
> J
>
> --
> Justin F. Knotzke
> jknotzke@xxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.shampoo.ca
>
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