Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> ... using Microdol-X, which is very different than Pyrocat, ... Yes, it is. I've thought a Pyro staining type of developer might be one route to lower grain, at least in theory. It would probably take testing to find what process really results in the best scanned files. My general view, however, is that, in retrospect, for purposes of scanning, smoothness and fine grain may have been better goals for me than high adjacency (chemical sharpening). I was very interested in chemical sharpening in my enlarger days. However now those negatives suffer when compared to what the digital cameras can achieve. I, in fact, first switched to Technical Pan and the Bronica RF 645 in part to cure the grain problem. But if I were to go back to Tmax and my SL66 I would adopt a developing procedure that stressed smoothness over sharpness if that came as a result of chemical adjacency effects, which tended to sharpen the grain as well as the details over the entire image. The ability to do localized PS sharpening is a more flexible approach to sharpening, in my view. Paul www.PaulRoark.com