[pure-silver] Re: William Mortensen's Glycin Developer

Mortensen evidently used more than one developer for his "gamma-infinity"
method.  The following formula is also cited for this method.

Water .................................. 750   ml
Sodium sulfite (anhy) ..................  90.0 g 
Paraphenylenediamine ...................  12.0 g 
Metol ..................................   7.0 g 
Benzoic acid ...........................   6.0 g 
Water to make ..........................   1.0 l 

Both formulas require long development times.  For the above formula this time
is required to produce sufficient contrast and for the other formula to produce
sufficient density.

Jerry

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Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 9:15 PM
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Subject: [pure-silver] William Mortensen's Glycin Developer


In reading through William Mortensen's book _Monsters and Madonnas_ I 
found the following developer formula:

Water    1 gallon
Sodium Sulfite   2.5 oz
Glycin    1/2 oz.
Sodium Carbonate   2.5 oz

For the example photo in the book, Johan The Mad, Mortensen developed 
Agfa Ortho Film Pack 1931 for 2.5 hours. I'm assumming that he used 
stand development.  I'm including this formulat since the book itself is 
quite rare.

-Peter De Smidt
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