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Blending your own
Personally I use nothing that I didn’t have to break a bottle seal to get at, so have the greatest admiration for those of you that mix your own with out causing an explosion. Please let me in on the secret of your success.
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I have had some fun with making my own developers for film and papers, but to be honest, I think your way of buying ready to dilute stock solutions is the sensible way.
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It's nice to hear I may be doing something right, but why do you think so?
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I use both - home brew and buy it in. My main trade dev over the last 8 years of so has been XTOL at 1+1, which I find cooks most films very nicely. But that's when I'm not trying tanning devs (not convinced), Rodinal (great for slow films), HC110 (too fast!) and my own stuff With home brews there is no big secret as all the chems are available from Silverprint (and others) and the formulas are all on the net, or in books such as those from Barry Thornton. You can make it as complicated as you like but a lot of the good old style formulas (stocklers / Beutler etc) are easy to mix from just a few basic chems. I am just ending an XTOL 1+1 spell and are about to have a go at making up D76H which I have heard good reports on, and seen some results. D76H is in effect an easy to mix up D76 with metol as the dev agent. I went through all the stockler types / and varients about 18 months ago but found the Beutler 'neil' modified dev more suited my needs than stocklers. If D76H does not impress me I will go back to my Beutler formula and run with that for a while. Have look at http://www.jackspcs.com/ and see what fun there is to be had Cheers, Neil.
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Neil, also consider DK-76b which is almost the same as D-76H, but uses Kodalk instead of Borax and is claimed to give a longer shelf life.
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Because from a health and safety point of view, you are less likely to come into contact with airborne dust particles of dry components in case you accidentally drop or spill an opened packet of developer. This shouldn`t put people off using dry chemicals, but you should be extra careful with preparing stock solutions in case of mishaps.
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Watch this space ! Cheers, Neil.
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Just a thought, I saw a simple recipe by Patrick Gainer for a developer which uses just three easily dissolved ingredients which you measure with spoons and dissolve in a litre of water.
L-ascorbic acid = half a level teaspoon full, Metol = one-eigth level teaspoon full and sodium carbonate = one level teaspoon full. No sulphite required, just pour the solution into your developing tank and use the times for undiluted D-76/ID-11. http://www.nigella.com/living_kitche...a=4&article=56 |
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