Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I have tried FX39 with Delta 100, and while the results are good, I am not sure that they are sufficiently better than XTOL 1+3 to justify keeping two developers. I like standardizing on one. Nathan Mark Rabiner wrote: > ON page 55 of "The Film Developing Cookbook" Anchell/Troop has four > categories of high definition developers: > > 1. Highest Acutance: > FX1, HDD, Beutler, Neofin Blue, some Pyrocatechin developers. > > 2. High Acutance: > Patterson VX39, & Acutol (FX 14), PMK, FX2, Formulary TFX-2, FX37. > > 3: Good Acutance (slightly higher than D76 but not as high as categories > 1 or 2): > Dilute DK 50, HC-110!?, Rodinal, Unitol, FG7.* > > 4. Solvent developers strongly diluted: good Acutance but less than > category 3. > D76, FX15, D23, Microdol X, Perceptol all diluted 1:3 or 1:4. They say > Kodak Xtol is a special case, offering a speed increase at that dilution > and unusually high sharpness for a solvent developer." > > Our developer discussions on the LUG have been involved with categories > 3 and 4 as that is what we are all using. > So many of us are using category 4 developers when we should be perhaps > using category 1! > We are three, count em, three leagues away from where we would like to > be or should be to take full advantage of our premium glass blah blah > blah and focused on a 24x36mm area to be magnified 5 to 15 times and so > on! > Premium 35mm photography! I think that is why we are here! > > Notice Rodinal does not make the top 2! > And Xtol even though they go out of their way to say wonderful things > about it is at the bottom of the barrel. - in Catagoy 4. > > maybe we should not be in catagoy 4 but 3; > not 3 but 2; > not 2 but 1! > Our glass easily deserves better. At least category 2 if not 1! > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.markrabiner.com > > * this is a little unclear: > we assume they mean slightly higher than D76 1:1, HC-110 dilution B, and > Rodinal 1:50 or 1:100. And FG7 with no sulfite. > But we don't know for completely sure and there is some doubt. > I have a feeling they mean HC-110 at a higher dilution than B. Which i > by the way had no luck with. I got uneven development. > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html