Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/04

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Tea leaves
From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@mediaone.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:14:36 -0500
 
Mike Johnston wrote:
>
> >>>Actually I've heard of people using coffee as a developer. Even
> better, green tea gets its color from six compounds gallocatechin ,
> epicatechin , epigallocatechin , epicatechin gallate and
> epigallocatechin gallate<<<
>
>
> Yes, but they're horrible; they hardly form an image. Vitamin C
> developers OTOH are very viable--they work very well.
>

	Supposedly Kodak chemists have been playing with ascorbate brews since the
1940s. Have the gallocatechins been seriously investigated? With a touch of
metol or phenidone?

Jon