[Leica] B&W developers

[Aram]

I was a Rodinal fan.  Gave me nice snappy negatives that were easy to 
print.  I once saw an article that referred to it as producing "honest 
grain" whatever that meant, but I did not mind the tight grain structure 
it had.  If I were pushing I would us something else, however.  But 
Rodinal always left me satisfied. My last few years with film,  I played 
around with adding ascorbate to it to minimize the grain and i did like 
that, too. Glad to see it is still available.


Aram

Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer

“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.” James D. Watson

On 6/14/2017 8:02 AM, Don Dory wrote:
> For easy compensating developing that is not insanely sensitive to time and
> temperature I would highly recommend Xtol dilute 1:3.  Development time is
> a little long compared to others but that is why if you miss your temp by a
> degree and are distracted for thirty seconds you will still have great
> negatives.  Edge detail is good but not Pyro or even some of the lower
> dilutions of Rodinal but much better than the high dilution Rodinal.
>
> All the best.
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> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com>
> wrote:
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>> Thanks everyone. It is quite clear that nothing has changed since the last
>> time I processed b&w film those many years ago.
>>
>> Gerry
>>
>> Gerry Walden LRPS
>> www.gwpics.com
>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
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>>> On 14 Jun 2017, at 15:00, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>> On Jun 14, 2017, at 5:05 AM, Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don’t want to start and wars here, and I know this is a minefield in
>> which I will get a thousand and one answers, but is there any consensus of
>> opinion these days on a one-shot b&w developer?
>>>> Insanely I am thinking of doing my own processing of film again.
>>> If you’ve never played with Pyro… you owe it to yourself to do so.
>>> A true difference in "edge."
>>>
>>> fond regards,
>>>
>>> George
>>>
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