[Leica] Divided D-76, and the lower 9th ward

[huntmc2 at gmail.com (Marshall Hunt)]

I used divided developers for years.  Stage shots have the contrast cut by
divided developers.  Also, as you say, they are pretty independent of
temperature.  But do not use a water bath between A and B!  Water bath goes
after B.  It's not the best contrast, but how else are you going to develop
various situations?

On 1/22/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote:
>
> Brownlow's technique differs considerably in that he uses full blown
> developer for the first bath (including the alkaline mixture) and then
> alkaline alone for the second. Formulary's uses *inactive* developer for
> the
> first bath, and then borax for the second (to activate the developer).
> Times
> don't make much difference, and temperatures don't make much difference.
> That's important to me right now as I have no thermometers and no camera
> stores in the city. Another benefit of Formulary's is that you can reuse
> solution A over and over...it doesn't get used up...it just ages a bit in
> the bottle. The borax (Kodalk would probably be okay) is discarded after
> one
> use, but it's pretty cheap.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of bill
> harting
> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 12:14 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Divided D-76, and the lower 9th ward
>
>
> Jeffrey, has anyone mentioned the divided D76 technique John Brownlow
> wrote
> about a few years ago? There might be something there.
>
> bill
>
> http://leica-users.org/v13/msg12273.html
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342@cox.net>
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:42 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Divided D-76, and the lower 9th ward
>
>
> >I spent an hour shooting two rolls of film in the lower 9th ward this
> >afternoon. I am not optimistic that anything will be of much interest.
> >There  is so much devastation, it just looks like one might expect
> >after a  nuclear
> > bomb detonating 20 miles away. I did find a child's toy rifle with a
> > collection of barnacles on the stock (wish I had taken a macro lens on
> an
> > SLR). I hope to get at least a PAW out of the 72 frames. Seeing so many
> of
> > people's possesions in the ruins was depressing, like someone emptied
> all
> > of
> > your drawers and closets into the mud.
> >
> > On another topic, I just mixed up a batch of divided D-76 (I was
> > getting
> > to
> > like D23 but my pastor somehow managed to knock all of the bottles off
> my
> > shelf last Wednesday, breaking every last one of them) and am wondering
> > what
> > to expect. Theoretically, it is a good idea (saturate the emulsion with
> > developer, then place it in borax to develop the image with little
> > possibility of overdevelopment). Of course, if it was good, everyone
> would
> > be using it. Have ANY of you used it? If so, how did you like the
> results?
> > I'm also sort of attracted to the temperature latitude (you don't need
> to
> > measure temperature at alll, which is good since my wife put my Wesson
> > dial
> > thermometer in the oven when she baked some corn bread the other
> day...she
> > couldn't figure out why the oven never got warmer than 125F).
> >
> > Jeffery Smith
> > New Orleans, LA
> >
> >
> >
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