Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:37 PM 11/22/99 -0500, Mike Durling wrote: >The lore from 20 years ago had it that Acufine would push Tri-X to 1200 ASA >(not ISO back then!) and that Diafine would do about 2400. I never tried >them myself. Maybe somebody else around here has. Most people I know used Acufine to push Tri-X to 1200. Some to 1600, but not many. One thing I found in the year I used it at journalism school was that replenishment made it better. After about a month, it "ripened" and produced very beautiful results. Even so, I switched to Edwal FG7 and Sodium Sulfite to get more speed for pushing and better shadow detail. For each 16 oz of developer I added one film cannister worth of Sodium Sulfite. Worked great. Stuck with that until I beta tested TMax film with TMax developer. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch The gene pool could use a little chlorine.