[pure-silver] Re: Bromophen
- From: shannon Stoney <shannonstoney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:56:09 -0600
If you use it undiluted, how many minutes do you give the print in the
developing bath?
On Nov 20, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Georges Giralt wrote:
> Hello !
> Bromophen IS my developer of choice;
> I like cold tone. And, often, one finds only warm papers. Even with
> other cold tone dev, they are warm.
> With Bromophen they're not. And if you really like sharp frozen tones,
> try it undiluted ! A razor.
> It is cheap, and you can keep it undiluted for a long time if you use
> full to the brim bottle to store it.
> In short, a must have in every darkroom.
>
> Le 20/11/2011 15:12, shannon Stoney a écrit :
>> It doesn't look at all like Dektol on Ilford warm tone paper. Dektol makes
>> a green cast on the paper, but Bromophen doesn't. There must be a subtle
>> chemical difference there.
>>
>>
>> On Nov 20, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Photovergne wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/17/2011 02:02 PM, shannon Stoney wrote:
>>>> I tried Ilford's Bromophen developer for paper yesterday, and I love it.
>>>> I mixed the two powders into the water in the wrong order, but it didn't
>>>> seem to matter.
>>>>
>>>> I am using it with their multigrade warm-tone glossy paper, and it looks
>>>> really good. Slightly warmer than the regular developer that comes already
>>>> diluted. But also it seems to bring out details in the shadow areas better.
>>>>
>>>> Just wonder if anybody else has tried it.
>>>>
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>>> Bromophen is the Ilford equivalent of Kodak Dektol. Same use, but a lot
>>> cheaper.
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