[Leica] Divided D-76, and the lower 9th ward

[jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)]

Brownlow's technique differs considerably in that he uses full blown
developer for the first bath (including the alkaline mixture) and then
alkaline alone for the second. Formulary's uses *inactive* developer for the
first bath, and then borax for the second (to activate the developer). Times
don't make much difference, and temperatures don't make much difference.
That's important to me right now as I have no thermometers and no camera
stores in the city. Another benefit of Formulary's is that you can reuse
solution A over and over...it doesn't get used up...it just ages a bit in
the bottle. The borax (Kodalk would probably be okay) is discarded after one
use, but it's pretty cheap.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of bill
harting
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 12:14 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Divided D-76, and the lower 9th ward


Jeffrey, has anyone mentioned the divided D76 technique John Brownlow wrote 
about a few years ago? There might be something there.

bill

http://leica-users.org/v13/msg12273.html



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342@cox.net>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:42 PM
Subject: [Leica] Divided D-76, and the lower 9th ward


>I spent an hour shooting two rolls of film in the lower 9th ward this  
>afternoon. I am not optimistic that anything will be of much interest.  
>There  is so much devastation, it just looks like one might expect 
>after a  nuclear
> bomb detonating 20 miles away. I did find a child's toy rifle with a
> collection of barnacles on the stock (wish I had taken a macro lens on an
> SLR). I hope to get at least a PAW out of the 72 frames. Seeing so many of
> people's possesions in the ruins was depressing, like someone emptied all 
> of
> your drawers and closets into the mud.
>
> On another topic, I just mixed up a batch of divided D-76 (I was 
> getting
> to
> like D23 but my pastor somehow managed to knock all of the bottles off my
> shelf last Wednesday, breaking every last one of them) and am wondering 
> what
> to expect. Theoretically, it is a good idea (saturate the emulsion with
> developer, then place it in borax to develop the image with little
> possibility of overdevelopment). Of course, if it was good, everyone would
> be using it. Have ANY of you used it? If so, how did you like the results?
> I'm also sort of attracted to the temperature latitude (you don't need to
> measure temperature at alll, which is good since my wife put my Wesson 
> dial
> thermometer in the oven when she baked some corn bread the other day...she
> couldn't figure out why the oven never got warmer than 125F).
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
>
>
>
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