Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Afterswift@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 9/4/03 5:54:19 PM, mark@rabinergroup.com writes: > > << You mean it was super thin? > > just slightly thin and a couple or more minutes didn't fix the problem? > >> > > Mark, > > However I change Xtol, I'm never satisfied. Contrast in the negs don't > satisfy me. T-Max developer works like my old favorite, D-76, but it's in liquid > form, which is why I like it. > > br > -- Not to make to fine a point of it except in some defence of Xtol but Liquid D-76 the T-Max developer ain't. D-76 is propelled by Metal and Hydroquinone supercharged by revolutionary (then I think) Borax. (soft) Metol and Hydroquinone being the most famous superadditive developer combination. One developer supports the other; who would have thought!!! At one to one you've got 50 grms of sulfite to give use the grain we think of as "normal" default." I call sharp mush. ANd edge effects. Straight it's mush mush and blocked up highlights. ... but other than that a perfectly nice developer! :) I recommend what we did in school which is to give it 1:3. If you don't want to read to the end Xtol 1:1 or 1:2 even will give you snap that even Maynard G. Krebs would envy. Diggit daddy oh! snap snap! Phenidone- Hydroquinone in the T-Max developer is very unlike Metal hydroquinone. PQ*MQ does not equal. How and why later maybe if anyone cares. I'm watching "Identity" WOW!!!! Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html