Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike Gardner wrote: > > Randolph Carlisle wrote: > > > Nicolas: > > If you are going to pre-soak, you will probably need to increase your > > development time about 20% > > Randolph > I stopped presoaking Ilford films recently after reading their rather > emphatic admonition NOT to presoak their films but I don't recall seeing > anything different in the negs that would lead me to change my > development times. I would assume from your post that you feel that > presoaking reduces neg contrast. Is the reverse true? > What specific film/dev combinations led you to this conclusion. > Curious about all things Black & White! > Thanks. > Mike Gardner Mike: I found that contrast stayed the same, but that developer activity was reduced by the presence of water that had saturated the film. I have been using mostly Ilford HP5 and Tri-X with HC-110. Everything has worked well with a 20% increase in development time. I use a lot of Technical Pan which I do not presoak..never attempted to qualify why; just didn't like the way it looked. Randolph