[pure-silver] Re: Diafine
- From: "Nicholas O. Lindan" <nolindan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:51:41 -0500
"Bogdan Karasek" <bkarasek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
... [can't get Diafine ... hazmat ... hydroquinone?]
... the only B+W film and print developers I can get in
Montreal are the 3-4 Ilford developers and Kodak Dektol,
D-76, D-19 ... What if your favourite develop contains
hydroquinone. And it can't be shipped.
Dektol, D-76 and D-19 all contain hydroquinone. There are
very few developers that _don't_ contain hydroquinone.
Diafine as a microfilm pictorial developer seems distinctly
odd. OTOH, it doesn't seem to matter what the combination
of film and developer, someone, somewhere, will swear it is
just the thing.
Using Google as a popularity judge:
diafine microfilm 29 hits
pota microfilm 863
POTA is phenidone and sulfite.
If you want a 'government free' developer you might try Caffenol LC+C:
1 cup water
4 tsp Arm & Hammer washing soda
1 tablet Vitamin C - 300 mg, about the size of an aspirin
2 tsp Folger's Coffee Crystals
Google for more...
Phenidone, Vit C and washing soda or metaborate
also makes a good cheap developer.
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Nicholas O. Lindan
Cleveland Engineering Design, LLC
Cleveland, Ohio 44121
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