Digital BW, The Print

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From: <deandadin@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 6:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Film


> Hello Clayton. My name is steve and I am a photographer and I
own a pro B&W
> lab in Santa Monica Ca. I use Tri x and Tmax a lot and I have
developer
> combinations that work very well with that film. I really love
Tmax 100 film
> developed in acufine 1-1 for about 14 min at 72 deg. I also use
Acufine with
> Tri x for about the same time. I rate the Tmx 100 at 64 and I
rate the Tri x
> at 250. I shoot all up to 4x5 and 35mm Tri x is really
beautiful with this
> combination I hope that this is a help and if you want to talk
sometime let
> me know. Regards Steve

That's the developer that I used 30 years ago for Tri X and FP4,
is it still available in Europe ?
Scanning the old negatives (well preserved as I also used
formaldehyde then to harden the gelatine halfway the washing) I
get better prints than I ever did in the past (hated the darkroom
anyway).

Ernst