William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Loveless" > Subject: PESO - Grin > > >> Taken a couple weeks ago. 645, SMC-A 35/3.5, 400TX, Dektol 1+10 for 5 >> minutes at 72F. (WTF? Did he say "Dektol"?) Yep. Couldn't find the >> bottle of HC110, so I mixed up some Dektol. I like the tonality, but I >> missed the focus. Her right hand is about where head was when I started >> to press the button. Anyway, critiques welcome and thanks for looking. > > When I was doing my custom B&W photo lab gig, I would do all my printing, > and then tray develop my copy negs in the depleted Dektol. I rarely wyld be > shooting more than a half dozen negs a day, and it just seemed silly to fire > up the processor for such a short run. > I never had any complaints from customers, and the film (I was using PanF+) > seemed immune to the grain clumping that one would expect from this sort of > mistreatment, and always printed at a reasonable filtration of ~30-50M. > I have a roll of PanF in the fridge. I'll try it. But you were probably using 4x5 negs, weren't you?
The massive dev chart suggests 5 min at 72F (22C) for Dektol 1+10 and Tri-X exposed at 400. The grain is really apparent when I blow up scanned images 3 or 4 times. It seems fine, though, for web presentation. I'd imagine that it's probably OK for 8x10 prints, too. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

