[Leica] Jeffrey PAW--Week 33

[jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)]

For medium format, the amount of developer is so enormous compared to the 
amount of film, I ignore the "twice as much" rule. With 35mm, I have been 
using twice as much developer.

I didn't "ripen" the developer with junk film, but did develop a roll of 
HP5+ that was semi-worthless before developing important rolls. Although 
unblinkingeye says that not using it "broken in" first is inviting disaster, 
the film came out fine. I am buying mine from the only source I know of... 
www.frugalphotographer.com. It comes as two plastic bags of crystals. As the 
others have said, its appearance doesn't inspire confidence (I still filter 
mine through a Melitta coffee filter), but I cannot complain about the 
results.



---- Lee England <Engl6914@cableone.net> wrote: 
> Jeffrey wrote:
> 
> > On a more positive note, this is TRI-X developed in 777. If you are 
> > anything
> > less than elated with your current B&W developer, do yourself a favor and
> > try some of this. When people ask me to describe 777, the best I can tell
> > them is that it does to film what Dektol does to prints. It develops them
> > just the way you want them, and it is easy to use. And it doesn't die in 
> > the
> > bottle. I don't think I'll ever use anything else for TRI-X.
> > 
> > Jeffery Smith
> > New Orleans, LA
> 
> Jeffrey,
> 
>     The ads/instructions with 777 said you had to use a film container 
> twice
> the size of the number of rolls being developed--that is, if I continue to
> develop three rolls at a time, I'll have to buy a tank large enough for 6
> rolls.  I gave up reading at that point.  Are you having to do this?
>     Also, did you run some waste rolls through the brew first in order to
> age the stuff, like the instructions said?  Are you mixing your own, or
> buying the stuff from someone?
> 
> Lee England
> Natchez, Mississippi
> 
> 
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