[Leica] Xtol dev times

[jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)]

Hey, I didn't say they were the same. I just said I switched (you know, like
switching cigarette brands...another thing that almost never happens). ;-)

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




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[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Mark
Rabiner
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 8:13 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Xtol dev times


On 11/28/05 4:11 PM, "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342@cox.net> typed:

> Is DD-X still available? When Ilford seemed to be going downhill, I 
> shed a tear and went from my beloved Delta 400 and Ilfotec to Kodak 
> stuff. But I'd like to do Ilford if it is available.
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> 
> 
> 
This implies a corollary or verisimilitude that I often hear. That DDX is
some kind of close liquid substitute for powdered Xtol. T'aint so. Don't
accept false substitutes folks. DDX was half assed marketed as a response to
Xtol so that was implied. Remember Rachel Carson. However it's just another
Phenidone liquid like many like Hc110 or Tmax developer baloney. No vitamin
C to fight for you making for cutting edge over the rainbow results. Stick
with Xtol. Grows strong bodies twelve ways.

Or Beutlers.
Or become a Pyro maniac. PMK or ABC or LBJ on the IRC.
Or some other non solvent high acutance developer worthy of Leica glass.
FX1, Neofin blue, Pyrocatechin developers. (not Pyro)

Or slightly not as ultra sharp
Paterson FX 39, Acutol (fx14) PMK is in this category.
Fx2 Formulary TFX-2 or FX-37
Which as shot down over Cuba but you can still get the stuff in Miami.

All here read off The Film Developing cookbook.



Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/





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