[pure-silver] Re: under-developed?

It could be the difference with me and how I was taught.  The D-76 was taught 
to me in a college class.  There the only temp control was on the developer 
itself.  But we also had a development chart for the various temps, and film 
types that was a good 20 years out of date.  What ever the temp of the water 
coming out of the faucet was the stop, which varied widely depending on the 
season.  The fix kept in 5 gal. containers was changed out maybe once a year.  
There were hundreds of rolls developed per week.  We just got so we would fix 
longer to get rid of the pinkish color to our negs.  It was there that I 
switched to HC-110 after taking a Bruce Barnbaum workshop.  I also got my 
development times of digital truth froim that point on.  The grain was 
significantly smaller, the contrast improved.  No more weird things happening 
to my negs.  I use dilution b unless like you the times get to close to 5 
minutes. I like longer development times.  I also started bringing my own fix
 to the school as well.  I doubt the fix was the culprit in why I disliked 
D-76.  I just was never able to control the contrast the way I wanted to with 
it.
   
  Aggie

Janet Cull <jcull@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    >>>I find the way I use it works wonderfully<<<
  

  

Aggie,  how do you use it?  I have a bottle left and would love to hear how you 
like yours.  Thanks.  

  

  

  

  

  

  
    On Feb 19, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Agnes wrote:

    I used D-76 for years, and was disappointed in it.  I switched to HC-110 
and love it.  I find the way I use it works wonderfully for me, and gets me the 
results I couldn't acheive with D-76.  I guess as they say, each to their own.  
I also like pyro developrs as well.  
   
  Aggie

Janet Cull <jcull@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  I was in a camera shop and saw a deal on chemicals, hc110 being the 
only developer they had. I live an hour from the city and any such 
store, so order everything at a distance. I thought it was a 
bargain. Turned out not to be, really.


On Feb 19, 2007, at 12:38 PM, Jim Brick wrote:

> Janet,
>
> I'm at a loss to know why you stopped using D-76 and went to 
> HC-110. What was the reasoning behind this? D-76 is one of the all 
> time best developers available. HC-110 is sort of a generic blah 
> developer. There are many many great developers out there, D-76 
> being one of them, and in my view, HC-110 is not one of them.
>
> IMHO of course,
>
> Jim
>
>
> At 08:06 AM 2/19/2007 -0500, Janet wrote:
>
>
>> Thank you, Jonathan. I've printed this out to look again more
>> closely. I cut the negatives this morning and they don't look as
>> great as I thought they might last night. My 35mm negs used to look
>> good when I used d76. 120 didn't always and I've fought with that,
>> but this is a new problem. I'm almost out of this hc110. Next time
>> it's back to d76. If they look the same as these I'll really be
>> going after it! Thanks again.
>>
>> Janet
>>
>
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