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[Mark Rabiner]

Interesting you used D76 at 1:3 at my college darkroom all the students ran it at 1:2 which it turned out was unheard of. The fact that it said 1:1 on the box and nowhere else seemed to make most everybody think there was a taboo on it. Nobody believed me when I told them I'd been running it at 1:2 and came short of calling me a liar to my face. But the increase of sharpness was very nice although of course an increase in grain. Never thought about running it at 1:3 though lots of developers the photographers I knew diluted them as much as they possibly could often going past what any documentation showed. Rodinal 1:100 was an example of that at least at first (the 70's).  They didn’t give you any times for that or show it till way later. And it was the dilution of choice for sure for anybody who was cool at all.
Xtol 1:3 another which is way more cool at 1:3 and way less at anything less.

 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
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On 2/22/18, 6:58 AM, "LUG on behalf of Bernard Quinn via LUG" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

    
    Loved Plus-X. Souped it in D-76 diluted 1 to 3. Real black and white. Still would if I could.
    
    Barney
    
    Barney Quinn, WK3Z
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    > On Feb 21, 2018, at 9:46 PM, Frank Farmer <frank at f3documentaryphotography.com> wrote:
    > 
    > LOVED Plus-X. Always preferred it to Tri-X. Does that make me some sort of weirdo?
    > 
    > Frank F. Farmer
    > Jackson, Mississippi 
    > 
    >> On Feb 21, 2018, at 8:25 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
    >> 
    >> I shot a ton of 220 Plus X in my studio and sometimes on location with my Hasselblads but sometimes twin lens Rolleiflex.
    >> It was Avedon's film as choice I've learned for black and white.
    >> For 35mm though I'd use tab grain films for mid speed films.. Delta 100, T Max 100. I settled into Neopan Acros 100,
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
    >> -- 
    >> 
    >> Mark William Rabiner
    >> Photographer
    >> 
    >> On 2/19/18, 4:28 PM, "LUG on behalf of Alan Magayne-Roshak" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of amr3 at uwmalumni.com> wrote:
    >> 
    >>   On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>wrote:
    >> 
    >>> I pulled two B&W images from my archives as a part of a discussion with
    >>> Jim Shulman about early Kodak Plus-X film.?
    >>> ...
    >>> ...
    >> 
    >>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070711-
    >>   jaycee+pancake.JPG.html
    >>   <http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070711-jaycee+pancake.JPG.html>
    >> 
    >>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070712-
    >>   Tullahoma+Jaycees+Pancake+Breakfast+07+54.JPG.html
    >>   <http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20070712-Tullahoma+Jaycees+Pancake+Breakfast+07+54.JPG.html>
    >> 
    >>> Jim also has a photo of Aunt Jemima at a promotional event that same year.
    >> 
    >>> Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated.
    >> 
    >>   --
    >>> Jim Nichols
    >>> Tullahoma, TN USA
    >>   =============================================================================================
    >>   Thanks for showing us.  I love looking at old film pictures.
    >> 
    >>   -- 
    >>   Alan
    >> 
    >>   Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
    >>   University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
    >>   (Retired)
    >>   UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
    >>   UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
    >>   amr3 at uwm.edu
    >>   http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
    >> 
    >>   "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
    >>    for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
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