Re: Any experience with D-19 developper?

[Cor Breukel <cor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Steve Traudt wrote:

> Cor Breukel wrote:
> > 
> > Intrigued by the statement of Michael Fulks in his interesting article
> > about IR on the WEB (http://www.apogeephoto.com/something, can't find the
> > rest )
> > "D-19 it is generally used as a graphic arts film.  That means it tends to
> > be high in contrast and grainy, but in my experimentation this has not
> > been the case. I get good contrast, easy to print negs, with subtle tones,
> > sharp grain and acutance"
> > 
> > I set out to try it: thus far the results are bad :the first film which I
> > really blew. I started out with my standard setting (Minolta X300 on 250
  >snip<
 
> I too was intrigued with his comment on how nice D-19 was. I started out 

> at many an EI, and D-19 is just plain too contrasty! A few negatives 
> were printable, but only at very, very long times in the enlarger. Once 
> I switched to D-76, my negatives were good to great. 

...did you also notice an increase in filmspeed of about 2 stops?  (not
bad to gain a bit speed...). I enlarged the only good neg. I obtained;
it's less grainy than processed with D76, didn't print yet though... 

> 
> I think we are all trying to make IR too hard. Laurie White's new book 
> suggests doing a test with 1/125 at f-11. Shoot a whole roll at that 
> setting, in all types of lighting. The results will amaze you. I 
> recently spent 5 days shooting nude models in the landscape and I 
> basically used 1/125 at f-11, whether it was sunny, cloudy, high 
> elevation, whatever. I shot 15 rolls like this and the negatives are the 
> best I've ever had.


..how did you process with D76?...

Cor Breukel 
http://ruly70.MedFac.LeidenUniv.nl/~cor/cor.html
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