[pure-silver] Does Shorter Dev Time Always Give You Lowest Grain?

  • From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Pure-Silver Mailing List <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:14:06 -0600

For N Development of TXP 120 @68F, I do the following:

PMK      13     min / 15 sec agitation
HC-110B   4.5   min / 30 sec agitation
D-76      6     min / 30 sec agitation

Is it the case that the shortest development time will always lead to
the least grain or does the formulation of these different developers
contribute in ways that makes this rule of thumb incorrect?

To my eye the HC-110B does seem to yield the lowest grain but I haven't
done carefully controlled tests with the same batch of film and subject/
lighting conditions.

--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tim Daneliuk     tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
PGP Key:         http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/

=============================================================================================================
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.

Other related posts: