Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Adding Potassium Iodide to the Buetler formula was Geoffry's addition, as I recall. Now that TEC is available, I just use that. Mike Tatem, the traveling representative for ETHOL company told me the TEC formula was Buetler but just a slightly different formulation. I spent a lot of time playing around with the chemicals and finally hit pretty close to TEC and stopped wasting anymore time. Now that we don't have Panatomic-X, I am not sure what use it would have. Don R. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] x-tol replacement: Rodinal > "Don R." wrote: > > > > Let me throw my 2 cents in. > > > > It was always my experience that Rodinal, in any dilution, was a sure fire > > grain enhancer while the Willi Buetler formula that is now TEC provided at > > least equal resolution with less grain enhancement. > > > > I agree on the Willi Beutler's. I'm going to give that another try I > used it for years mainly with Panatomic x the negs which when i come > back to are the best to print. You've got to mix that up yourself > though. And get some Potassium Iodide. Easier now because it is what > they prescribe in case of nuclear war. Take two in the morning and kiss > your ass good-by. I thought it was the most deadly thing in my darkroom. > No they're making it in pill form and handing it out to everybody. > Blocks Radiation. And gives marvelous sparkle in the highlights. > > Your prints will be glowing. And you won't be! > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.rabinergroup.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html