[rollei_list] Re: Tri-X developer
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 19:31:41 -0400
At 06:49 PM 5/23/2008, chatanooga@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks for this interesting link. Particularly
enjoyed the final paragraph where the merits of
silver-halide are succinctly wrapped up. Me,
I've only used Rodinal to-date, 1:50 being
seductive to my thriftiness. Still, after this
article think I might try this HC-110 elixir soon enough.
Gosh. HC-110 is a decent developer but it is
rather, well, unspectacular. Richard Knoppow
frowns on Rodinal though I love the stuff. Learn
on Rodinal and D-76 and then branch out. XTOL
really is a good developer though it is hard to
get other than in REALLY large cities or by mail.
Check out Photogaphers Formulary and learn to mix
your own brews. That is the best way.
Richard Knoppow has an extensive library of the
technical side of this, while I have an extensive
library of the user's side of the house dating
back to the time when folks still really worked
in the darkroom, back in the Lngago, when digital
was a code word for masturbation.
Somewhere in my notes I have a process used by
the aerial recon photo guys in the SOWESPAC in
WWII: the airplane would land, the cameras would
be unloaded, and it took about eight or ten
minutes to produce prints. The developed
negatives had a life of about 30 seconds but,
what the hey, they printed them wet and the devil
take the hindmost, as the Intel guys just needed
the prints to plan the next bombing run, which
was already prepped on the runways and rarin' to go.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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