[pure-silver] Re: Efke processing
- From: <genej2@xxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 0:43:31 -0400
No funny business at all. Very clean negs. Very sharp and "tactile" with
normal contrast at asa 25 outdoors. By tactile, I mean rocks look like rocks.
Like you could touch the print and feel granite. Like that. Don't take my word
for it. Just try it.
>
> From: jeffrey <puresilver@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2005/05/26 Thu PM 10:22:23 EDT
> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Efke processing
>
> Uhmmm... If this works, then everything I learned about film
> agitation gets thrown out the window.
>
> So you don't see mottled areas, or flattened highlights?
>
> I suppose this works because of the extreme dilution.... the
> developing agent(s) 'migrates' thru the solution...??....
>
>
>
> >Efke 25 is really fragile when it's wet.
> >
> >BTW, I've "discovered" a really lovely way to develop Efke 25.
> >Just use Rodinal 1:100 with a 30 sec water rinse or so, then no
> >agitation at all for 25 min at 68 degrees. Try it and tell me what
> >you think. I can use the 25 min for all sorts of things and the
> >Efke has this really beautiful "edginess" to it when developed this
> >way. No wierdness at all in several rolls and my best results with
> >this film by far.
> >>
> >> From: "Kevin Halcrow" <crowks@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Date: 2005/05/26 Thu PM 08:59:04 EDT
> >> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [pure-silver] Efke processing
> >>
> >> I processed, for the first time, a roll of Efke 25 35mm film last
> >> weekend. Because of my unfamiliarity with this film, I ran off 15
> >> exposures, six blank frames, and another 15 exposures, then
> >> processed the first set of exposures with 5min in 1+4 TMax developer
> >> at 20C and the second set with the 2-bath compensating developer I
> >> generally use for TMax (Barry Thornton recipe). With the first half I
> >> also did an initial 1 min soak in water and a brief stop bath of water
> >> between developer and fix, as recommended by the film's suppliers
> >> (JandC Photo).
> >> As I was about to do a "finger squeegee" with the washed first set, I
> >> noticed light marks on an unexposed part of the film that clearly had
> >> come from handling this part of the film. Running my fingertip
> >> deliberately across the same area caused more damage.
> >>
> >> The second set of exposures, processed in the 2-bath developer,
> >> didn't have this problem and I could wipe unexposed areas without
> >> harm. Both pieces of film seem to be well developed and I don't notice
> >> any pronounced differences between them, apart from a slightly
> >> greater overall density in the TMax-developed exposures. Grain
> >> structure seems similar in both though differences may show up when
> >> I do some printing.
> >>
> >> The first half of the film was processed in a Nikor metal tank, the
> >> second half in a plastic Paterson tank; I can't believe that this would
> >> have had any effect on the processing. Could anyone suggest what
> >> might have caused my different results with the two developers?
> >>
> >>
> >>
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