[pure-silver] Re: Pyrocat -HD Starting Points
- From: Eric Nelson <emanmb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:09:11 -0700 (PDT)
You've got experience with this and a process that works to your tastes.
In the most recent instance of looking for an time for Adox 25 I found a time
that for contact printing on silver put it at a grade 1/2 to 1 depending on
your tastes. That was 9 minutes 1:1:100 and the MDC had no times. I had to go
looking all over to find just that starting point. I ended up running the
balance at 8 mins.
Eric
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From: Pablo Kolodny <pkolodny@xxxxxxxxx>
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 1:25 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Pyrocat -HD Starting Points
Hi Eric,
I know I'm almost nobody here since I rarely post to the list but I try to keep
up to date by reading many if not all of other's messages.
Pyrocat HD is not something that made me an expert but I do have now a nice
amount of film processed with this developer. It is a wonder, indeed.
Massive development Chart usually is a good starting point, what I've found out
is that those times are a bit short to me so I just add about 15 to 20% BUT
what I also do is to rate film by half the nominal speed, yes, I like contrast
and density and though I might well abuse the wellness of Pyrocat HD in what
respects to non blocking highlights... this seems to work well for me for
printing on silver, scanning and not as often making platinum/palladium prints
as well.
So that development times at www.pyrocat-hd.com.... site look reasonable to me
except for that of the film speed change, I set my meter at half the film speed
for all of films out there: my vice ?
Cheers
Pablo
On Mar 16, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Eric Nelson wrote:
One thing about pyrocat hd is that there's no one authoritative listing of
times/temps/dilutions for this developer. When I found myself AGAIN spending a
1/2 hour googling for times for a film I'd never developed before, I made the
suggestion at the http://www.pyrocat-hd.com site that their's would be the best
place to list whatever times Sandy had as I'd find those more believable than
ones found on the Massive Development Chart or some forum as we don't know who
came up with those times, if they were rank amateurs, or just some prankster
inputting any ol' thing.
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>pyrocat-hd.com has responded with this starter page.
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>http://www.pyrocat-hd.com/html/times.html
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