I think about 30 years ago in my Protechniques column in Modern
Photography I suggested D-23 by mixing one ounce of metol and one
pound of Sodium Sulphite in one gallon of water.
although not exactly D-23, it is close enough. .Ed
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> Although I can vouch for the effectiveness of these developers, IMHO
> almost any film that needs developing can be dipped in off the shelf,
> packaged D76, with none the wiser (PQ developers for push processing,
> if you really, really have to). When properly exposed and processed,
> the differences in any category of measure are too small to matter.
> That doesn't mean there are no advantages to other developers, but
gr> those are usually in their economy or ease of use. One exception is
> Xtol and its relatives, but that's another thread.
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> Allen Zak
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> On Jul 24, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Petr Dvorak wrote:
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> Let me add my 2c to this interesting thread. My most favorite
> and almost exclusive developer for 120 and 4x5 films is Barry
> ; Thor nton's 2 bath formula, a metol based compensating developer.
Barry
> started with Stoeckler's and Ansel's D23 formulas and
> modified them slightly for modern emulsions. It is very cheap (I mix
> the solutions at home, the chemicals are cheap and easy to buy
> online), it lasts forever, it is not time and temperature sensitive;
> and produces very nice and even results with good details in shades
> without blowing out highlights. For those who don't mind using 2 bath
> developers, this is an interesting alternative to Diafine.
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> bath.htm
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> Petr
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> On 7/24/07, Gene Johnson
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& gt; wr ote: My favorite developer is a homebrew that was developed
by
> Patrick
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> Gainer and tweaked by a bunch of folks on a BW list I was
> on. My
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> particular iteration is a concentrate of Phenidone, Ascorbic acid,
and
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> KBr (originally in propylene glycol, but I use car antifreeze!), that
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> is diluted at time of use with water, borax, and sodium carbonate.
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> oneThe working solution is one shot. Anyway, if anyone wants the
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> recipe I'll provide it, but I've had great luck with it for a long
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> time. The concentrate seems to last forever, and the results are
Xtol
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> like.
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