At 12:44 PM 12/18/01 -0500, you wrote:
>pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
Using paper developer with Ortho Litho film.
Since paper developers are more active and contrasty by their makeup, it
makes more sense to use dilute film developer in order to obtain long scale
negatives with this film. I believe the old wives tale about using dilute
paper developer came from an article I read in a photography magazine in
the late 1930's or early forties which promoted such development.
For many years I have used dilute filme developers, D-76 at 1+ 6 to 1+8 is
one example, or W2D2, a pyro developer, to produce beautiful long scaled
enlarged negatives.
Paper developers cause a harsh contrast line between dense adjacent areas
of density which is very unacceptable to me.
Jim
Received on Tue Dec 18 16:20:44 2001
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