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

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Subject: [Leica] Lab vs. home processing.
From: sam at osheaven.net (Sam)
Date: Sat Sep 4 06:33:30 2004
References: <c3148fc3274b.c3274bc3148f@shaw.ca> <1080070330.27473.50.camel@creo_pc3> <40610A1E.9080900@cox.net> <1080150969.23270.28.camel@creo_pc3>

Why not try D-23? It's a beautiful soft developer that gives long tonal 
range, decent grain, and with only two ingredients, it's easy to mix.

Sam S


Feli di Giorgio wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 20:10, Mike Durling wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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>feli
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>>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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