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