Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/22

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: AM50 mail reply
From: "Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 20:01:25 -0000

Jim

What development time do you use for Xtol and Efke 100?

Thanks

Steve

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jim Brick
Sent: 22 February 2002 18:07
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Re: AM50 mail reply


At 09:51 AM 2/22/2002 -0500, Rolfe Tessem wrote:

>Just what is it about this developer that is supposed to be so
>wonderful?
>
> From the published literature I've read, it would seem that Xtol is the
>only truly significant advance in the last 30 years in that it gives
>fine GRAIN, high SPEED, and high ACCUANCE all at the same time. With
>every other developer I've read about or used personally, it would seem
>that you gain advantages in GRAIN/SPEED/ACCUANCE only at the expense of
>one or both of the other factors.
>
>Rolfe


In my 50+ years in the photography/darkroom business, it has become quite
obvious that everyone has their own favorite film/developer combination.
What I like, many dislike. What I hate, many love. Etc...

I hate Microdol-X.

I love Rodinal 1:100, Willy Beutler and Hans Windisch soups, hand developed
in a SS tank. And I like throwing in a little vitamin C occasionally
(APX-25, Efke 25.)

I like Xtol 1:1 and Rodinal 1:50 in my JOBO (Tri-X, APX-100, Efke 100.)

I like D-76 1:1 by hand in a SS or hard rubber 4x5 tank (Tri-X, APX-100,
Efke 100.)

A developer that I can't get, which someone else likes, is of no great
interest to me. People rave about Dixactol. I can't be bothered learning
yet another new developer even though I can get it. So AM50... nah!

We all are tuned into a particular look. A look that we get with the stuff
that we keep on using over and over and over. If we didn't like it, we
wouldn't use it.

Jim



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