Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] negative intensification
From: omegaman <omegaman@shentel.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 20:01:13 -0400

Disfromage wrote:
> 
> HELP! Sorry to yell, but I have a big problem. I developed about 12 rolls of
> Tri-x in divided D-76. The developer must have been too old and lost activity.
> ( haven't we all?) The negatives are quite thin and flat. My question is can
> they be intensified? I've never tried and don't know anything about the
> different processes, except for a little I got from some limited reading. Do
> intensifiers really work? Is the print quality affected? If anyone out there
> has any experience doing this, I would appreciate hearing from them. A number
> of these images are very important to me and I am willing to try anything. TIA
> 
>                 Richard W
Richard:
You can gain an apparent 1/2 to 1 stop density by selenium toning the
negatives.  I have not done it for some time as I have been lucky -
don't remember the dilution.
Randolph Carlisle