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From: "Charlie Thorsten" <charlie_thorsten@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 3:00 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Buyer found for AGFA Photo
Ilford makes a fairly full line of developers but ID-11, their equivalent to D-76 is not buffered and they make nothing like Xtol. Fortunately, D-76 is easy to make from scratch and the formula for Xtol is in the patent. Ryuji Suzuki, who follows this list, has devised an Xtol type formula which has improved stability. Its on his web site at http://www.silvergrain.org Developers like Kodak T-Max are evidently very similar to Ilford Microphen or DDX, again, published formulas for this kind of developer exist. Mixing your own is something of a PITA but was done for decades and is certainly better than doing without.
--- Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:One can hope only that the remaining market will be large enough to support Ilford and smaller companies like Efke, Berrger, Foma, etc. We are loosing a hell of a lot of technological knowledge with the loss of Kodak and Agfa.
I went to my local photo supply store yesterday to buy some D76 and their paper section was all Ilford. They used to have Kodak, Agfa and Forte on the shelves as well, but no more. Luckily, they said they've had no problem ordering Ilford supplies and hopefully they'll have enough of the small B&W market that they can stay alive.
I know...I was in there buying D76 so I'm not really helping. But I like shooting Tmax 100 and Tri-X, and I don't know of a good Ilford developer for these films. Ilfotec? I guess I should try Delta 100 and HP5+.
--- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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