[Leica] B&W developers

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Don as you know I?m with you on the Xtol 1:3 it was my developer of choice 
too but an impressive article was written on Rodinal 1:25 stating the 
results were indistinguishable from D76 1:1 making for a hugely cost not 
effective situation. It would cost a fortune to pour that much of it in 
there. You?re the first person I ever knew to tried it and lived.
Most felt maybe try it at an unpublished compromise 1:75 to tame the grain 
ever so much but then went back to 1:100 with all the good big boys (and 
girls). Even 1:50 got people scratching their fingers at you and your 
prints... Few people who tried it liked it not at full dilution. 
1:100 made Rodinal Rodinal just as 1:3 made Xtol Xtol.
Ansel said it didn?t matter which developer you used just as long as you use 
it at the right dilution. 
(to the effect)

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Mark Rabiner Rabiner



On 6/14/17, 11:02 AM, "LUG on behalf of Don Dory" 
<lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of don.dory 
at gmail.com> wrote:

    For easy compensating developing that is not insanely sensitive to time 
and
    temperature I would highly recommend Xtol dilute 1:3.  Development time 
is
    a little long compared to others but that is why if you miss your temp 
by a
    degree and are distracted for thirty seconds you will still have great
    negatives.  Edge detail is good but not Pyro or even some of the lower
    dilutions of Rodinal but much better than the high dilution Rodinal.
    
    All the best.
    
    On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at 
icloud.com>
    wrote:
    
    > Thanks everyone. It is quite clear that nothing has changed since the 
last
    > time I processed b&w film those many years ago.
    >
    > Gerry
    >
    > Gerry Walden LRPS
    > www.gwpics.com
    > +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
    > +44 (0)797 287 7932
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > > On 14 Jun 2017, at 15:00, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at 
icloud.com>
    > wrote:
    > >
    > >
    > >> On Jun 14, 2017, at 5:05 AM, Gerry Walden <gwpics at me.com> wrote:
    > >>
    > >> I don?t want to start and wars here, and I know this is a minefield 
in
    > which I will get a thousand and one answers, but is there any 
consensus of
    > opinion these days on a one-shot b&w developer?
    > >>
    > >> Insanely I am thinking of doing my own processing of film again.
    > >
    > > If you?ve never played with Pyro? you owe it to yourself to do so.
    > > A true difference in "edge."
    > >
    > > fond regards,
    > >
    > > George
    > >
    > > http://www.imagist.com/blog
    > > http://www.imagist.com
    > > http://www.linkedin.com/imagist
    > >
    > >
    > >
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    Don
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