[Leica] B&W developers

[lluisripollphotography]

Hi George,

Thank you for your information, I’m still more interested to test it! It is really interesting and exciting you have applied the Zone System on all your tests. The negatives I’ve saw was not exposed neither developed by me, I can’t talk about a properly diect experience, after read your details and those from Chris I’m really interested to test it.

I can’t remember where I’ve read this recomendation for developing:

Dilution  1:1:100,  72ºF  15 Minutes,   Agit. Once every minute  + 10 sec.  at 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 of the total time.

Thank you again,

Cheers
Lluis





> El 15 juny 2017, a les 0:18, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com> va escriure:
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>> On Jun 14, 2017, at 1:32 PM, lluisripollphotography <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Your comment is very interesting for me, I’ve never developed with Pyro for myself but I’ve worked with negatives developed in Pyro, grain and fine structures are very fine but I think that the tonality gradation is poor, it offers a great and nice contrast from Black to White but a certain lack of gradation. I know some ones has employed it successful with semi-stand development and a long time with very slow agitation. I would appreciate very much your experience and comments about, thank you!
> 
> My experience seems almost the opposite of yours.
> The staining gave me superb highlight rendering;
> and long tonal scale. 
> 
> I always tested and used the Zone System;
> with any and all developers;
> at least N-2, N-1, N, N+1 and N+2;
> including with my roll films.
> 
> The last wedding I photographed on film
> was done with two M6s and an X-Pan;
> and the films were all processed in Pyro;
> and printed on silver double weight paper;
> mounted and bound in 3 “oriental” style albums.
> 
> If I have any of the notebooks from those days;
> they’ve been in storage for a decade.
> My memory won’t do well on formulations,
> times or temperatures,
> without those notebooks
> 
> Though I DO remember marveling
> over the tonality and “edge”
> of those stained negatives.
> 
> fond regards,
> 
> George
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