[Leica] B&W developers

[Mark Rabiner]

Don as you know I’m with you on the Xtol 1:3 it was my developer of choice too but an impressive article was written on Rodinal 1:25 stating the results were indistinguishable from D76 1:1 making for a hugely cost not effective situation. It would cost a fortune to pour that much of it in there. You’re the first person I ever knew to tried it and lived.
Most felt maybe try it at an unpublished compromise 1:75 to tame the grain ever so much but then went back to 1:100 with all the good big boys (and girls). Even 1:50 got people scratching their fingers at you and your prints... Few people who tried it liked it not at full dilution. 
1:100 made Rodinal Rodinal just as 1:3 made Xtol Xtol.
Ansel said it didn’t matter which developer you used just as long as you use it at the right dilution. 
(to the effect)

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Mark Rabiner Rabiner



On 6/14/17, 11:02 AM, "LUG on behalf of Don Dory" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of don.dory at gmail.com> 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.
    
    On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com>
    wrote:
    
    > 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
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    > > On 14 Jun 2017, at 15:00, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com>
    > wrote:
    > >
    > >
    > >> 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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