Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/16

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Subject: [Leica] So long Rodinal. I'm going to miss you.
From: jblack at ambio.net (John Black)
Date: Thu Mar 16 08:17:33 2006
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> I shot both Pan F and Acros on the same day and developed them together in
> divided D-76. At high magnification off a Nikon film scanner, the Acros
> looked sharper with finer grain and less contrast. I may never use Pan F
> again.
>

I know divided developer is supposed to be insensitive to time but, believe
me, Pan-F is VERY sensitive to developer activity and it's extremely easy to
overdevelop.  Properly handled, it is a very good legacy type film with low
contrast and medium acutance and very little grain.  Develop it for 50-60%
of regular time or dilute the developer 2X further.

JB