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i'm using the ilford multigrade ilfospeed paper developer,i got no complains for it.
my 5 litre developer seems to last forever though,i use the small wine glass often used in incense offer on the altar about 2.5cm tall each time with 14x dilution on an 8R tray.i get just enuff working solution to submerge one 8R nicely..
using it for a few mths liao,still about 95% full :bsmilie:
my 5 litre developer seems to last forever though,i use the small wine glass often used in incense offer on the altar about 2.5cm tall each time with 14x dilution on an 8R tray.i get just enuff working solution to submerge one 8R nicely..
using it for a few mths liao,still about 95% full :bsmilie:
hongsien said:Hi KH,
What makes it so special? Turns your B&W photo into colour????
Hong Kong
The blacks and the mids look very 'rich' with this developer. There's a luxuriant feel to the images.
It's a slightly warm tone developer (also determined by paper choice of course, but with Agfa's variable contrast FB paper, it's warm). Nothing commercially available holds a candle to this developer. Not cheap to mix though because of the cost of the Glycin (and Glycin oxidises easily).
This and D-23 for film were my mainstays when I still had a darkroom.
I couldn't give a crap about the commercially available developers or chemicals because I just didn't like the look they gave - too antiseptic. I wanted to be able to get the kind of tones I saw in fine black and white monographs and I realised that the only way to achieve that was to use the older formulas.
The only chemical that I didn't mix myself was rapid fixer. It was cheaper to buy the 5 liter Ilford from that fat man downstairs than to mix it up myself.
I even boiled my own selenium toner because I couldn't get hold of any from Kodak. My last experiments were meant to be with pyro and lith. (these days I sit in front of the computer trying to write action scripts for PS to simulate the film look - which is ironical if you think about it)
I don't have the patience (or space) for darkroom work anymore. I feel that you've got to be fairly independently wealthy to do it happily, and then, why bother doing it in this country. Supplies of choice chemicals, paper and film are just not easily gotten here. ;-)
Anyway, the traditional darkroom type reproduction process is slowly but surely being eradicated from the face of this earth. As is film. Sad but true. B+W enthusiasts got the message smack in the face recently when Agfa anounced it's getting out of the film business totally.
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