Hi Bill, Well, if you can't find any Acufine up in the cold, northern nether reaches, let me know and I'll send you some. I've got some other stuff for you as well.
As for your gut reaction that there's no actual speed increase, my recollection is that that comment runs contrary to what you said several months ago when I mentioned how nice it was to see that Acufine/TX combination again, having not used it for many years. IAC, I don't understand this business about a contrast increase in the lower zones. For there to be increased contrast there'd have to be recorded and developed detail. If one is shooting TX at two stops under Kodak recommendations, should there not be some loss of shadow detail? Like I said, I don't understand all this, I just know that I measure middle grey at a higher EV than what's printed on the yellow box, pretty much follow the Acufine directions (Actually, I dilute it 1:1 and double the dev time), and get mucho shadow detail, more so than when souping in other developers. William Robb wrote: > I see another set of film tests coming up > I will get back to you. > > My gut reaction is that there is no actual > speed increase, but that there is a large > increase in the contrast from Zones 1 to 4. > I don't know if I have a source of Acufine > or Diafine close at hand. I may need a list > member to procure some chemistry for me. > Leave it with me for a couple of weeks. -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
