[Leica] 2 bath Pyrocat-HD

[csaganich at gmail.com (Chris Saganich)]

Some grumbled about the LED scanner light source vs the florescent light
source, the latter being preferable for staining developers...or maybe it
was the opposite, I get these things confused.  One thing I remember is that
agitation should be plentiful especially with smaller format films to get
full development.  I tended to extend development times since I'm a timid
agitator, so at least 10 sec/min or more.  Works great in a continuous drum
type system, ie unicolor tank and reversible base...not much time or density
difference compared to normal tank development.

Some examples, start with number 6...chemistry indicated under thumbnails
for images, mostly pyrocat for couple pages.

http://www.imagebrooklyn.com/paw_2004/2004/PAW2004.html


CS

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com> 
wrote:

> Chris, from what I understand the staining actually helps with scanning
> when
> using a high quality scanner (which is what I have, the Nikon LS-9000).
> Hence my looking into it.
>
> Thanks. I will finish a roll tonight and try it!
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Chris Saganich <csaganich at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The Pyrocat HD will be both sharp (as sharp as a typical D76 type
> > developer)
> > and very smooth. especially in the clouds, in fact if I shot clouds allot
> I
> > would only use it.  I have no grain issues even for TriX, looking at a
> > 16x20
> > print next to me developed in Pyrocat HD I see little to no grain at a
> > normal viewing distance.  It's even better with slower speed films.
> > Scanning Pyrocat HD film may be different due to the stain as it is
> > colored.  The advice is to scan RGB and convert, I don't remember how
> > important this was to the final image.
> >
> >
>
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