Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Randolph Carlisle wrote: > Nicolas: > If you are going to pre-soak, you will probably need to increase your > development time about 20% > Randolph I stopped presoaking Ilford films recently after reading their rather emphatic admonition NOT to presoak their films but I don't recall seeing anything different in the negs that would lead me to change my development times. I would assume from your post that you feel that presoaking reduces neg contrast. Is the reverse true? What specific film/dev combinations led you to this conclusion. Curious about all things Black & White! Thanks. Mike Gardner