[pure-silver] Re: William Mortensen's Glycin Developer
- From: "Garry D. Lewis" <garrylewis747@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:18:25 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
>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
According to Dr. Edmund Lowe, this was Mortensen's variant of a basic
Diamine-metol developer especially adapted by the Benzoic to allow longer
developments time for added contrast. He also say that at longer times, this
developer becomes a non- fine grain developer. But since Mortensen was using
the 3 1/4 X 4 1/4 format, I don't think grain was a worry. Dr. Lowe said that
grain could be reduced by substituting Gradol for the Metol.
In the few illustrations(2) of Mortensen("Monsters and Madonnas" )using 35mm,
he says he used "Supersoup". I've always wondered what this was- a formula or
an off the shelf product. The other example was D-76 for 1.5 hours.
One of the curious things I've read is that NONE of Mortensens negatives have
ever surfaced. Either they were all destroyed or are still in someone hidden
files.
Garry
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