Digital BW, The Print

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wilfredm71047 [mailto:wilfredm@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 6:43 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Pyro Development for Negatives to be Scanned
>
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>
> >I have been successful with Pyro and have gotten most of my info
> >from Gordon Hutchings "The Book of Pyro". I,like Martin use a 5
> >minute pre-soak. Instead of the nitron burst, I found that two very
> >short,"1 minute and 30 second development at 80degrees" worked well
> >for me. One thing that gave me trouble was these splotches on the
> >the film after completing the process. I found them to be where
> >prewet water splashed on the film while introducing the water into
> >the drum. Everywhere a drop of water hit the dry film, even though
> >that drop didn't stay there for a fraction of a second, it caused
> >that spot to show in the dry negative. To eleminate this I would
> >take the drum with no lid in place, and push it into a 2 gallon pale
> >full of my pre-soak water. A steady, and slightly rapid sinking of
> >the entire drum flooded the film fast enough as not to allow any
> >part of the film to remain wet before all of it was wet. Then I
> >would install the lid and tap the bottom of the drum on the counter
> >to eleminate any air bubbles. This >eleminated the splotches for me.
> >I call it the Wilfred Dunk. He,He.
>     Wilfred Smith.

Wilfred,

Thanks for the "Dunk" tip. I know people have problems with water spotting
during the presoak fill including Gordon Hutchings. For some reason (local
water?) I have never encountered it. I just pour a gallon or so of water in
through the lid's fill port with the drum slightly tilted to one side. Your
filling method sounds so easy though I'll give it a try.

With the high temp, short development time, how do you manage your N-1, N-2,
N-3, etc. developments?

Martin