----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Valvo" <dvalvo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 4:30 PM Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Any news from Ilford? >A little ID is used as an emulsion stabilizer which means >it can't be taken > out completely for RC papers. > > Dave But how much effect does it have on development kinetics? Papers made for activation processing are characteristic in having a very short induction time. I use Kodak, Ilford, and Agfa papers and can see the difference between the Ilford papers which cannot be used in activation processors and the Kodak and Ilford papers which can. I do not consider this a shortcoming but only something that is observable. The developers I generally use for printing are Kodak Dektol 1:2 and more recently Agfa Neutol Plus 1:9. At these dilutions these two behave very similarly. --- 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.