Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/04

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Subject: [Leica] Lab vs. home processing.
From: feli at creocollective.com (Feli di Giorgio)
Date: Sat Sep 4 06:33:30 2004
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On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 20:10, Mike Durling wrote:
> One of the things I am noticing is that D76 is not always D76!  Kodak 
> adds stuff to make it more packagable, and may even use things that are 
> not in the original formula like phenidone.  Your Super76 is someting 
> else altogether.

I suspect the same. I'm not so sure any more that Namco Super76 is the
same as true blue D76. As of lately I have thinking about trying
something like Divided D76. There seem to be some benefits to it, one
being very consistent results.


feli


> 
> I have been getting good results with home-mixed D-76 from the original 
> formula but that is not for everybody.  I think a lot of what people 
> attribute to changes in film emulsions are actually changes in the 
> chemistry.
> 
> Mike D




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