Nearly all of the really bad experiences I've had in developing film have been traced back to developer behaving badly rather than user error (one notable exception was the time I thoroughly rinsed the film between solutions A and B when developing with divided D-76). I used distilled water religiously. I have pretty much refused to entertain liquid developers except for those I order directly from PF (I wish they had expiration dates on the bottles). No bad luck with PMK Pyro from PF, but I'll probably order new bottles before getting half way through my current bottles.
My experience with PF WD2D+ pyro; I had one bad batch (which they replaced immediately), but it's a very nice (liquid) one-shot developer, the stock solutions of which I would not keep on the shelf longer than about 6-9 months (tops!) - the resulting film seems to get grainier as the developer gets older than 5-6 months since initial opening.
(And it must be mixed up IMMEDIATELY before processing - it oxidizes quickly.) ============================================================================================================= 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.
