Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/27

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Subject: [Leica] FA-1027?
From: feli at creocollective.com (Feli di Giorgio)
Date: Mon Sep 27 15:42:54 2004
References: <0I4500LKBDZ3EX@mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com> <F4A97920-0842-11D9-B941-0050E42E6E0B@shaw.ca> <3.0.2.32.20040917213831.01d06538@pop.infionline.net> <002d01c4a364$bf6b8bd0$87d86c18@ted>
 
A while back I picked up a bottle of FA-1027 from Fine Art Photo Supply.
The advertising for this developer is on the bombastic side, as are their
newsletters, but after developing about 10-15 rolls of TX400 in this stuff,
I'm starting to think that this may actually be a surprisingly good 
developer.
Negs seem to have a rather linear response in the middle values and the roll 
off in the highlights is impressive. It also holds good shadow detail Grain
is fine, but not mushy. I found it difficult to overdevelop the negs in 
general.
For some reason this developer reminds me of the results I was getting when I
was playing around with HC-110...


Anyone else use this stuff? 


http://www.fineartphotosupply.com/FA1027%20Developer.htm



Feli
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