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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Tri-x/HC110 user needs a change

2002-08-05 by Tim Spragens

Hi Frank,

as to developers, try a roll or two in Rodinal, it will be anything 
but mushy unless your scanner doesn't focus well... and if that's the 
case the high accutance of this developer will help. It's available 
here in 125ml bottles (I don't know about stateside), and is 
inexpensive, so you won't be out much.

I'm afraid that I forgot the format you're working, Julian's comments 
about AN glass could work two ways, if you're using a flatbed, put 
the film emulsion side down and cover with a piece of AN glass, if 
you're working with 35mm in a dedicated film scanner, mount the 
frames in AN glass slide mounts.

>  I don't mind grain per se and I've used this film/dev for a long 
> while with good result- now I guess I'm wanting it to serve me in the 
> digital as well as silver worlds :-) 
> 
> But it seems the grain is mushy not sharp/crisp. So maybe a silver 
> solvent dev likeD76 is the wrong way to go ?


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Tim Spragens

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