Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2002-05-19-19:10:25 Mark Rabiner: > What Dektol is for paper: D76 is for film. > Both standards. > > I've heard though people actually running their 4x5 film in Dektol for > say 2 minutes as an instant film developer in the 40's during WWII. > I can't see that working so well in roll film. Back in the day I recall using a recipe I got through photo folklore for developing... I think it was Tri-X in Dektol, the purpose being to get great, blizzard-like storms of giant grain (when you want such an effect). I don't for the life of me remember the specifics. About the same time, I learned (and have also since forgotten) a trick for pushing film (must've been Tri-X, too) to then-nearly-unheard-of (4-digit or 5-digit EIs?) using... wait for it... HC-110 replenisher, not the regular developer. Moving forward a bit in time... remember the 80s? I think I'll cross-process some Ektachrome, just for old times' sake. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html