This exchange made me wonder what to do with all the PMK I have mixed. :D ________________________________ From: Dennis Purdy <dlp4777@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thu, May 19, 2011 1:07:53 PM Subject: [pure-silver] Re: ADV: Re: Efke R100 Chapter 2: PMK On May 19, 2011, at 08:55, Eric Nelson wrote: >Once I switched to Jobo processing, I used PMK for a while till I learned of >pyrocat hd and made the switch to that developer. PMK can have some >unevenness >in rotary whereas pyrocat seems to avoid that with all the benefits of PMK. > I was seduced into trying PMK several times over the years and always came to the same conclusion that it was too difficult to get away from the mottling on sheet film. Recently I have been using Pyrocat-HD and it is for me much better than PMK. No mottling at all and nice brownish negs on rolls or sheets that print beautifully. The only problem I have had was recently with FP4, but that turned out to be a problem with Edwals LFN instead. Dennis