[rollei_list] Re: Plus X -PX 125- and Microdol X discontinued
- From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:35:44 -0500
I can see that since I started in the darkroom in the late 60's and doing
photography there have been films I didn't care for all that much but
knowing other very good photographers who did like them and in most cases
we'd be using different developers. Though it didn't take exactly that for
me to realize that some films worked well in some developers and some do
not.
I'd tend to have a favorite developer and use the films which worked the
best with them. Some of my photographer friends also took that tact but
others picked out a film and then found a developer / dilution to work with
it.
In the late 90s I went through an Xtol 1:3 period the whole second half of
the decade I'm sure.
What I fond with Xtol 1:3 is if I could NOT use my favorite films (they were
out) just about any film worked amazingly.
An exception being plus x as is well documented.
And Delta 3200.
So I started pretty much thinking that it didn't matter which film I'd use
just as long as I ran it in Xtol 1:3.
I wasn't going to sweat Ilford over Kodak.
And as so much of the work that I and most people did were with solvent
developers what the issue was was not the developer itself. But the
dilution.
You use just about any solvent developer straight or 1:1 its going to look
like mush. But dilute it to the maximum and it will sharpen up for you but
of course you have to stop at a point where you start getting too much
grain. All in all there is a lot of developing; printing, then tweaking the
development going on.
[Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner
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