[pure-silver] Re: On stand developing of Ilford PanF
- From: "John Black" <jblack@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:39:48 -0400
Some nice effects can be obtained: the prints (13*18 cm) are grainless, and
have a special quality, on one hand the DOF with 40 asa film, hand held is
quite small, but there is a also something with the contrast: it looks to me
that the midtones are "streched out" at the expense of shadow separation,
and the highlights get blown out easy, so on first glance the prints look
high contrast, but OTOH the midtones separate quite nice. For example my
kids have some minor freckles which realy gets exaggerated in the prints..
Stand development works quite well with little tendency to streak if more
neutral developers are used such as Xtol at 1+5 or 1+7 for 30-45 min.
Rodinal is very high pH and, even diluted, tends to be too reactive in
highly exposed areas.
I have a friend that uses stand development exclusively with everything from
35mm up to 4X5 with great success. He uses a very dilute, low sulfite
(5gm/L) PC developer at pH 8.3 and has no streaking problems. His times
vary from 30-60 minutes depending on the film and EI.
JB
PS- I use semi-stand (is that like semi-pregnant?) where I agitate for the
first 30 sec and then one inversion very gently every 3-4 min thereafter
using the same developer and about half the times he does.
JB
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