----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Loveless" Subject: Re: PESO - Grin
>> >> 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. No, that was 35mm film. I didn't shoot 4x5 copy negs unless the original was huge, or unless the customer was willing to pay the exorbitant premium I built into my pricing structure. William Robb -- 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.
