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Old 23rd February 2009, 12:24 PM
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Should have said; I mentioned in another thread that the 'same' emulsion on different formats can behave differently. 35mm seems to hold less stain than the larger formats. You won't have any difficulty seeing it on 120 film...
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Hello to all prescysol and prescysol ef enthusiast, now that you have had a few years to play with prescysol can you tell me how to use it to its full potential?
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Just use it as per the instructions.


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Just use it as per the instructions.


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Agree with Steve.

I find that the partial stand development gives me the results I'm looking for.

Peter is still around to ask if you have any queries.

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Norman,
Start with the recommend time for partial-stand development but you will end up altering that time to your personal development time. This is because we all meter the in different ways and how dense you like negatives.
When I use Prescysol it's the EF version at 24c for 8.5m P-Stand = agitate
every 2.5m, I get fine negatives.
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but you will end up altering that time to your personal development time.
I have found that altering the time makes no difference. I once tool a phone call whilst developing and left it to stand for at least twice as long as it should have and it did not appear to have affected it.


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Hi

I found prescysol EF fairly hard to get wrong, but it does need a bit of a tweek depending on the film you use. I overexpose by 1/3 of a stop for FP4 and TMY2 but this was not necessary for delta 400.

I mostly used FP4 and TMY2, which came out a bit flat. I took the advice that dev time does not increase contrast and increased the concentration to 1.5+1.5+100. Very nice. TMY prints at grade 3.5, FP4 more like 3 (diffuser head).

I've stopped using it for the time being as it doesn't really work with my Analyser Pro.
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I've stopped using it for the time being as it doesn't really work with my Analyser Pro.
Reviving a very old thread as a result of a thread today from a new FADUer asking about Prescysol. The "it " in question in the above quote is Prescysol which as everyone will know is a staining developer but there are two versions Prescysol and Prescysol EF which is finer grained at the expense of stain and designed for 35mm negs, especially those used for big enlargements

I must admit that I have often wondered about how well the Analyser Pro manages stained negs

It appears that no-one asked IanNN to expand on his statement and I haven't checked if he is still active but can anyone say what their experience has been with Prescysol and the Analyser Pro or indeed the Analyser Pro and any staining developer?

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