Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I will give it another try and thanks for your recommendations. I am not >familiar with the term Press Maxx developer. Is this something that is >available only for the professional market? No, it's a developer by Unicolor that was specifically designed to work with TMax films. The best way I can describe it is Tri-X tonality with TMax grain. Absolutely gorgeous. No blocking up of highlights and wonderful shadow detail. TMax developer is designed to be used pushing TMax films. The films themselves were optimized to work with D-76. The one thing Press Maxx developer can't do is P3200. It's horrible with that film. golf ball sized grain. You can find it at B+H in New York. It comes in bottles to make 1 and 5 gallons. It's one shot. And it has a very long shelf-life. Something like six months in a partially opened bottle. That's the mixed stuff, you should mix the whole gallon or five gallons because it has a very high dilution ratio and is difficult to dole out in 8 or 16 oz. amounts.Though you'll love it so much you'll be shooting more and run out long before it expires! :-) - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, even if a stubborn one. - Albert Einstein