----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryuji Suzuki" <rs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 2:06 PM Subject: [pure-silver] Re: ddx vs d76 > From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [pure-silver] Re: ddx vs d76 > Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:03:46 -0800 > >> DDX is a liquid concentrate version of Ilford >> Microphen, >> which is a Phenidone version of D-76. In comparison to >> D-76 >> it yields slightly coarser grain and slightly higher film >> speed. > > AFAIK, this is not the case. Ilfotec DD-X has lower pH > than > Microphen. D-76 is finer grained than Microphen, but I'm > not sure > about DD-X v. D-76. I didn't use them for quite some time. > -- > Ryuji Suzuki > "Keep a good head and always carry a light camera." > The MSDS for DDX at 1+4 gives the pH only for the concentrate. That is 8.7. The ingredients of the current MSDS show it contains Dimezone-S. The current MSDS for Microphen shows the pH as 8.65. --- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.