Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Please let us know how these turn out, I think this is an interesting > technique to try. I've not gotten around to it yet, and would like to know > what you think of it. The curious want to know! > > Richard Wasserman Richard, It's called "stand" developing and I received a very enthusiastically-written article detailing one writer's enormous success with the process. He described in detail the incredible properties of his negatives. Then I asked him if he had done any controls, and he said, "Controls?" So then he went back and compared his results to conventionally developed film, and he found that there was no difference. All of the wonderful properties he had ascribed to the technique were simply characteristic of that film in that developer. We did determine that stand developing is less even, though. Most of these techniques (stand developing, water bath developing, Willi Beutler's developer) worked with the old thick-emulsioned films, comma if they worked at all. There really are no true thick-emulsion films left, although some at a lot thicker than others. If you want to experiment with a true super-high-sharpness developer, try either of the slower Deltas developed in Geoff Crawley's TFX-2 formula, available from Photographers' Formulary in Montana. It's a non-foaming modification of his glycin FX developer that they originally marketed as being specifically for the T-Max films. Don't let that stop you. - --Mike