Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, This interests me (still stuck in the darkroom). I've been using HC-110 in very dilute concentrations, and been pretty happy with the results, but I've not tested or done anything scientific: who has time ;-) I used to use D-76: are there any good works comparing the results of the different developers with the films that I could review? or is it all experience and personal preference Cheers On Monday, Dec 8, 2003, at 04:06 Australia/Melbourne, Eric Welch wrote: > Sorry, I was not remembering it correctly, exactly. The film came > first, and shortly aftewards, when they sent us P3200 to test the > developer came along with it. With the explanation that TMax developer > (not what it was called when we were testing it) was specifically > created for pushing film. It was not designed to be a standard > every-day developer. It can function that way, though, and you can get > very good results. But the grain will not be minimized as in D-76 1:1. > > HC-110 was my developer of choice at the time. (Too fond of Ansel I > suspect). When I tried it with the first batch of TMY, it blew the > highlights out so bad it was nearly unpritable (as in you could get a > usable photo as long as you considered usable as in no highlight > detail. When the new developer came out, it was so much better I > didn't bother trying D-76 for a long time. We were so blown away by > what we could do with P3200 and that developer I think I didn't bother > using TMY or Tri-X for about two months, except when I shot outdoors. > Then I used TMX. This was while I was in grad. school at the > University of Missouri. There were several of us in the test and our > results were pretty uniform. > > So, HC-110 and TMax developer are substantially different. Phenodone > is used in a lot of developers (ID-11, no?) and the only similarity I > could detect is they both started out as liquids. HC-110 has a nasty > tendency to increase grain (something Ansel never bothered with > because by the time he shot 35mm on a regular basis, he was so old he > had no desire to experiment with a new film/developer/processing > combination). Alastair - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html