Just ordered a copy on Amazon - looks like it will be an interesting
read. The resource I have relied upon is Morgan and Morgan's "Darkroom
Book." It's more of a general guide to developing and printing and
includes a chapter about how to setup a home darkroom. But one chapter -
"Fine Tuning the Chemistry" - goes into the essential components of
developers, fixers, hypo clear, etc. Includes recipes for various
developers. The book you recommend sounds llke it covers this in much
more detail.
Mark
On 3/6/2016 3:14 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
This may be of interest to only a few, but I pass it along anyway...
If you want a "Master's Class" in B&W film developers, you have to get
a copy of the 1998 "The Film Developing Cookbook". WOW. Just received
my copy and it is a well-organized, easy read on the various families
of developers, what they are best at as well as the formulas to make
your own. There are also chapters on Films (obviously dated),
Developer ingredients, Development Procedures, and After Development
Processes: Stop Baths, Fixers, Washing.
The book has "three special emphases: how to use different developers
to achieve a wide range of pictorial effects, how to mix and use
solutions from scratch (and how to create new ones), and how to
process film for maximum archival permanance." "Much of the
information in this book have never been published before."
A quick perusal allows me to say that this includes a formula for
HC-110 gleaned from its 1971 Patent information. (However, convenient,
versatile and economical as HC-110 may be "it produces coarser grain
than D-76, and is not as sharp as many high acutance developers." Page
67 contains Edwal formulas, including Edwal Super 20: "The official
formula for Super 20 has never before been published, though several
popular authors have (incorrectly) claimed to know it."
The book was begun as a response to difficulty people had getting good
images from Kodak's Tmax film. (I have about 13 36-exposure rolls of
Tmax 100 in inventory.)
If you are interested in B&W film developing, I can't recommend it
highly enough.
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