Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] deserve to be green
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 10:55:17 -0800

"B. D. Colen" wrote:
> 
> Eric - I think you're right about UFG - which I had completely forgotten
> about. Didn't the same folks make UFG, Diafine and Acufine?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> > Eric Welch
> > Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 3:21 PM
> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us;
> > 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> > Subject: RE: [Leica] deserve to be green
> >
> >
> > At 07:29 AM 11/22/99 +0000, Jem Kime wrote:
> > >Dev. in UFG (whatever that brand is -
> > >ultra fine grain?) for 3-5 mins at 68 F.
> >
> > Same company that makes Accufine, I believe. If I'm not
> > mistaken, that's
> > the developer that you don't have to worry about time or
> > temperature, no?
> > If I ever go back to printing black and white I'll have to
> > give that a try.
> >
> > Eric Welch
> > Carlsbad, CA
> >
> http://www.neteze.com/ewelch
> 
> Nostalgia: The good old days multiplied by a bad memory.

Your memory is doing mighty fine!
Acufine you have to be just as careful as anything else.
Diafine is the developer in which time and temperature considerations are much
less because it is a two bath.

Mark Rabiner
Fine.