Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Jim Hemenway wrote: >> D-76 forever! :-) >> >> Jim > > Yeah, I keep D76 around. It's my fall back if I run out of Xtol at home. > > For me, though, Xtol is the best of the two. It doesn't block up as much > as D76 can. Smooth as Dairy Queen :-) > > Daniel > Try doing D76 1:2 instead of 1:1 like everyone I went to Webster college with in the 70's did and I did. The one guy who didn't you could spot his 8x10 prints on the wall from ten feet away. They were mushy. No bite. You get a nice kick of adjacency effects with the added dilution as you would when you'd so dilute just about anything. And a more defined sharper grain. Not for everybody. But the sharpness effect mainly through edge effects is well worth it. The question is add a tab of acid to it: ascorbic acid that is: and see if it matches or beats Xtol. I think it would. Lots of people do this already. Mark William Rabiner Harlem, NY rabinergroup.com