I have an 18x30 print of a basketball shot taken in 1975 hanging on my office wall. It was taken with TriX rated at 1600 and developed in Acufine. The grain is fabulous. Sometimes things just don't get any better.
> Saturday 20 October 2001 20:59, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Hi Bill ... > There are some developers, notably Acufine, that allow one to rate an > emulsion at a higher - sometimes a substantially higher - speed with > no loss of shadow detail, which is what sometimes gets lost in a > "classic push". I don't consider using these developers to increase > the speed of the film as pushing. Rather, through some means unknown > to me, they actually deliver negatives with a full range of shadow > detail along with the higher speed rating. > > So, rather than "pushing" a film one might consider using a developer > that actually increases a film's speed and range of usefulness. > However, I don't really understand how this is done - what the > chemical agents are, etc. Any comments on this, Bill? -- Kenneth Archer + San Antonio, Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #24980801 Powered by Linux ++ Mailed by Kmail - 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 .
