I'm certainly not an expert in this field and offer this link only for your examination. Draw your own conclusions.
That is the link to the main site. www.fineartphotosupply.com This is the link to the new developer I mentioned before. http://www.fineartphotosupply.com/FA1027%20Developer.htm This is a quote from their April news letter. "D-76 is similar to D-23 and D-25, but with the addition of Hydroquinone. The Hydroquinone gives D-76 more energy, so there is less or no sulfite reduction of the silver halide. (This isn�t secret information � see Adam�s The Negative, pp 183-185). All of these developers, D-23, D-25, and D-76 are unrestrained. Perhaps this explains the high value compression in the D-76 developer action. Quite distressing. Shall I share something that is a bit of a secret? Kodak T-Max developer is the same formula as D-76, except it�s liquid. They are the same developer." I'd be happy to send a copy of the April news letter to anyone that wishes, but I think I might be pushing the envelope even reposting this piece on the group. If you subscribe to their news letter they do send you the current issue plus about 3 back issues of the free ezine type. There is a lot of tech-no-babble that quite frankly I don't completely understand yet in these letters and truly hope that some of the more skilled in this department might check this out and give us their opinions in layman's language. Dave -----Original Message----- From: William Robb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 7:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: D76 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Miers" Subject: RE: D76 > According to a site that I recently subscribed to T-Max developer and D76 > are actually chemically the same even though from what I understand one is a > powder and the other is a liquid. Except that they give entirely different characteristic curves to identically exposed film. I expect they do share some common chemical compounds, but I have my doubts that they are the same, based on my limited experience with black and white processing. William Robb
