[pure-silver] Re: More (Semi) Standing Around
- From: "BOB KISS" <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 22:08:20 -0400
Me too! But I switched to LPD when Printofine was discontinued. I believe the
Digital Truth people are marketing a "Something-O-Fine" clone of Printofine and
a nice replacement for LPD. If you contact them they will tell you which one
it is.
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I have mourned the death of Ethol LPD for paper
On Monday, February 8, 2021, 4:49:55 PM EST, Tim Daneliuk
<tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2/8/21 2:59 PM, `Richard Knoppow wrote:
judgement would be if someone who liked an exotic process tried once
something very old fashioned and conventional such as DK-50 and Dektol for
paper, just to see what they got.
I have done that very thing within the last 12 months - repeatedly. What
I discovered is that there was a reason I moved to D-76 and then
HC-110, and then PMK That progression of developers gave me
better and better control of my negatives and tone mapping. Pyrocat-HD -
conventional, Extreme Minimal Agitation, or stand - is showing me yet
another and quite significant improvement in negative control.
We might debate the whys and wherefores as to whether The Great Yellow Father
got things as good as they need to be, but the one thing that is absolutely
certain is that they optimized for *time*. All this negative wizardry comes
as the expense of a lot of time invested in testing and perfecting technique.
That kind of time and complexity is out of reach for the beginning amateur and
economically impossible for the working commercial photographer. So, it
remains the province of we few advanced specialists (advanced both in
experience and years, it would seem) who have the love of craft and time
to pursue them. I reiterate that I may do all this and walk away from it,
but I just HAVE to see this through.
I have not yet dipped my toes in the optimization of paper development.
Oh dear, I am lecturing. A shortcoming of mine (with lots of others).
No. We're friends here and friends have complicated discussions most
especially when we don't see things the same way.
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