Digital BW, The Print

I've used Barry's Exactol Lux a bit, mostly with Delta 400, HP5,
Neopan 400 and Acros.  It gives very nice negs with good highlight
control.  Scans nicely.  That said while it was my fav for a while I
now used HC-110 shooting films at about 1/3 pull and pull back dev
time about 15-20% and get very good results for
scanning-----especially with Tri-X and HP5.  I think basically it's
best for scanning not to over-expose and/or over-cook your negs.

Here's a Neopan 400 shot of a scanned neg  developed in Exactol Lux:

http://contaxg.com/document.php?id=11892&full=1

and two with Neopan Acros, same:

http://not.contaxg.com/document.php?id=2164&full=1
http://not.contaxg.com/document.php?id=2060&full=1


Richard



On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:12:48 -0800, Josh Randall
<joshrandall@...> wrote:
> It's funny when you ask a question in this group.  Sometimes you get
> different answers than you were looking for.  In my original post, I asked
> about developers for Tmax 100 film that would result in a better scan.  What
> I got was mostly people stating they don't use b&w film and thus recommended
> the standard.  
> 
> This might be my fault.  I was not very clear.  What I meant to ask was, "I
> have heard that pyro developed film and film developed with Barry Thornton's
> developers result in a better scan because these developers stain the film
> so as to mask grain.  Has anyone used one of these stain developers and
> gotten better scans as a result?"
> 
> Sorry for my vague question before.
> 
> Josh
> 
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