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

  • From: Nick Zentena <zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:38:17 -0400

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 16:26, Edward C. Zimmermann wrote:
> There are loads of excellent paper developer formulas out there..
> Most of the packaged one these days tend to be either MQ or PQ formulas..
> I think the Ilford is a PQ probably not unlike the Champion Multispeed
> developer.. A box (2x5 litre jugs) should last some time and should be
> cheaper.. The Ilford stuff is anyway now from Champion :-)
>
> Scratch is, however, also cheap... For that money one could get a pound of
> metol, 50g of Phenidone or Dimezone and some Hydroquinone or some Ascorbic
> acid and a few other cheap bits to make perhaps a years worth of
> developer.. and have a much better shelf-life (properly stored Metol, for
> instance, can keep for a millenia).......


        So does anybody have any idea what is/was in Agfa Multicontrast? Why it 
kept 
forever? 

        Nick
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