Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/24

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Subject: Re: Off topic--Atomal developer??
From: Tom Resident <aquatom@pacbell.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 00:37:27 -0700
 
Charles E. Dunlap wrote:

> Has anyone used Atomal? Does anyone know where to get it? B+H doesn'tt
>
> carry it. Is it an old developer? A home brew? I read about it
> recently--it
> seems to offer the fine grain of Microdol-X without the film speed
> loss

I used to work with it more than 15 years ago in Europe. It was made at
that time by east-german ORWO as a liquid concentrate, I believe that
AGFA made it too. From dilution you have a wide control over
grain/contrast (from 1:10 to 1:200! if I remember corectly).