[pure-silver] Re: Holy Jesus Ilford bumped its prices

  • From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:16:46 -0700


----- Original Message ----- From: "Philippe Gauthier" <pgauth@xxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:24 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Holy Jesus Ilford bumped its prices


Justin F. Knotzke a écrit :

   Hello,

I just bought a 5L jug of Ilford paper developer from Photoco here in
Montreal and it came out to $37.00CDN! Yikes! I used to never recycle paper
developer but I sure as hell am now!

I mix my own Ansco 130A for less than 10 CDN dollars and it lasts me for 6 months or so - you can replenish it with super cheap potassium carbonate if it becomes less active. Plus, it's a fabulous developer. Don't recycle Ilford single use developer, mix some multiple usage soup instead! We're lucky enough to have a real good photo raw chemicals supplier here on the South Shore, let's use it.

BTW, if you ever want to give it a try, there will be a comparative paper dev test in my photo club next week - Dektol vs Ilfosol vs Ansco 120 vs Ansco 130A. The Ansco 120 will be mixed on the spot. Write me to know the details of the location, etc.

Philippe Gauthier

Ansco 120 is a so called low contrast developer containing Metol as the only reducing agent. Kodak Selectol Soft is (was) very similar although there was no published formula for it.
Since the Glycin in 130 is quite expensive its likely that a Dektol type developer (Kodak D-72) could be mixed even cheaper.
If one compares the published formulas for the "standard" print developers of various manufacturers one finds little difference among them.
Ilford Bromophen is the same as published formula ID-62. It is essentially similar to Dektol/D-72 except it uses Phenidone instead of Metol and has Benzotriazole in it as the anti-fog agent. Adding some Benzotriazole to Dektol tends to get rid of the slight olive tone which the developer produces with some papers.

Have you compared prices from U.S. dealers? I don't know how difficult it is to buy from them in Canada or what the rate of exchange is now. The cost of the VC filters does seem excessive.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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