RE: [Leica] Salgado's Developer

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Do any of you folks do any work with Acufine?

B. D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of John
> Brownlow
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 4:16 PM
> To: LUG
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Salgado's Developer
>
>
> on 25/9/00 3:21 pm, Dances_with Leicas at m6ttl72@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know what developer and dilution Sabastio Salgado
> uses for his
> > tri-x?
> > I need more edge contrast/acutance than xtol 1:1, and I would
> like to keep
> > grain from becoming obnoxious. Any ideas? I would like to hear any
> > suggestions.
>
> Either go to Xtol at 1:3 which should do exactly what you want or (my
> solution) use 1:1 but cut down on your agitation towards the end. For
> example, I develop APX 400 for 12 minutes in Xtol 1:1. I agitate (very
> gently) for 30s at the beginning then three slow inversions per
> minute until
> four minutes are left, then three slow inversions per two minutes at the
> end. Sometimes if I'm feeling brave I leave it for 3 minutes right at the
> end. This gives you all the acutance you want. Theoretically there is a
> danger of bromide streamers if you do this but I have never had any,
> probably because at the end the rate of bromide production is very slow.
>
> If you really want edge effects try this with Xtol 1:3.
>
> You could use Rodinal or something but the grain would be
> hideous... unless
> of course you are Sebastiao Salgado... who is said to use tri-x in rodinal
> and P3200 in Tmax. although I have also heard he now uses Ilford
> Delta 3200.
>
> You can check out the whole discussion, which was on rec.photo.darkroom a
> while back, by clicking on this link:
>
> http://www.deja.com/group/rec.photo.darkroom
>
> then scroll to the bottom of the page and do a search for 'salgado' in the
> 'past' archive of messages.
> --
> Johnny Deadman
>
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