KODAK POLYMAX FINE ART

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On 25 Aug 2004 16:50:06 -0700, (Dan Quinn) wrote:

And you forgot to mention curlier..


Now that really galls me; you and J. D. Beyer. If you two
knew how to dry print paper that thought would have never entered
your minds.
I made big bucks, for a college student, many years ago drying
that single weight in blotter rolls; nice very nearly flat prints.
That single weight is all they dished up in my three years in
the service. All that and some newspaper work were glossy or mat
dried on 'flat' or rotary bed print dryers. Dan

Take it EZ Dan !

I'm sure it can be done but I doubt if it would compare to DW
when processed identically.


Regards,

John S. Douglas, Photographer - http://www.darkroompro.com
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On 25 Aug 2004 16:50:06 -0700, (Dan Quinn) wrote:

And you forgot to mention curlier..


Now that really galls me; you and J. D. Beyer. If you two
knew how to dry print paper that thought would have never entered
your minds.
I made big bucks, for a college student, many years ago drying
that single weight in blotter rolls; nice very nearly flat prints.
That single weight is all they dished up in my three years in
the service. All that and some newspaper work were glossy or mat
dried on 'flat' or rotary bed print dryers. Dan

Take it EZ Dan !

I'm sure it can be done but I doubt if it would compare to DW
when processed identically.


Regards,

John S. Douglas, Photographer - http://www.darkroompro.com
Please remove the "_" when replying via email

Hy,
I would like to know which is the best developer for the Kodak Polymax Fine
Art Double Weight: Dektol or Polymax ??
Thank
Matteo

Hy,
I would like to know which is the best developer for the Kodak Polymax Fine
Art Double Weight: Dektol or Polymax ??
Thank
Matteo

Matteo wrote:
Hy,
I would like to know which is the best developer for the Kodak Polymax Fine
Art Double Weight: Dektol or Polymax ??
Thank
Matteo


I like D-72, but substituting 100ml of 1% benzotriazole in water for the
KBr. IIRC, Ansel Adams used Dektol for everything near the end of his career.

I used to use lots of different developers for paper. My other favorite
was Ansco 113 (Amidol), but after a lot of testing, I concluded that they
were all alike except:

1.) Amidol required about double the exposure of other paper developers.
2.) The color I liked with Amidol was a result not of the developing
agent, but the restrainere. It was then that I started mixing D-72
(essentially Dektol) and using bzt instead of KBr.

The miracles of deeper blacks, etc., seem due to increased exposure of the
print, not some mysterious property of the developer.

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Matteo wrote:
Hy,
I would like to know which is the best developer for the Kodak Polymax Fine
Art Double Weight: Dektol or Polymax ??
Thank
Matteo


I like D-72, but substituting 100ml of 1% benzotriazole in water for the
KBr. IIRC, Ansel Adams used Dektol for everything near the end of his career.

I used to use lots of different developers for paper. My other favorite
was Ansco 113 (Amidol), but after a lot of testing, I concluded that they
were all alike except:

1.) Amidol required about double the exposure of other paper developers.
2.) The color I liked with Amidol was a result not of the developing
agent, but the restrainere. It was then that I started mixing D-72
(essentially Dektol) and using bzt instead of KBr.

The miracles of deeper blacks, etc., seem due to increased exposure of the
print, not some mysterious property of the developer.

--
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/V\ Registered Machine 241939.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 08:05:00 up 22 days, 23:42, 4 users, load average: 4.21, 4.18, 4.12

Jean D,

I have found that adding a bit of bromine to dektol also will give a
deeper black without pushing the highlights to grey. Probably the same
as using benzotriazole as it allows greater exposure.

Frank

Jean-David Beyer wrote:

Matteo wrote:

Hy,
I would like to know which is the best developer for the Kodak
Polymax Fine
Art Double Weight: Dektol or Polymax ??
Thank
Matteo


I like D-72, but substituting 100ml of 1% benzotriazole in water for
the KBr. IIRC, Ansel Adams used Dektol for everything near the end of
his career.

I used to use lots of different developers for paper. My other
favorite was Ansco 113 (Amidol), but after a lot of testing, I
concluded that they were all alike except:

1.) Amidol required about double the exposure of other paper developers.
2.) The color I liked with Amidol was a result not of the developing
agent, but the restrainere. It was then that I started mixing D-72
(essentially Dektol) and using bzt instead of KBr.

The miracles of deeper blacks, etc., seem due to increased exposure of
the print, not some mysterious property of the developer.

Jean D,

I have found that adding a bit of bromine to dektol also will give a
deeper black without pushing the highlights to grey. Probably the same
as using benzotriazole as it allows greater exposure.

Frank

Jean-David Beyer wrote:

Matteo wrote:

Hy,
I would like to know which is the best developer for the Kodak
Polymax Fine
Art Double Weight: Dektol or Polymax ??
Thank
Matteo


I like D-72, but substituting 100ml of 1% benzotriazole in water for
the KBr. IIRC, Ansel Adams used Dektol for everything near the end of
his career.

I used to use lots of different developers for paper. My other
favorite was Ansco 113 (Amidol), but after a lot of testing, I
concluded that they were all alike except:

1.) Amidol required about double the exposure of other paper developers.
2.) The color I liked with Amidol was a result not of the developing
agent, but the restrainere. It was then that I started mixing D-72
(essentially Dektol) and using bzt instead of KBr.

The miracles of deeper blacks, etc., seem due to increased exposure of
the print, not some mysterious property of the developer.

Frank Calidonna wrote:
Jean D,

I have found that adding a bit of bromine to dektol also will give a
deeper black without pushing the highlights to grey. Probably the same
as using benzotriazole as it allows greater exposure.

Frank

I sure would not want liquid bromine in my darkroom.
Perhaps, as you say, adding it to a paper developer will give deeper blacks.

The reason I prefer benzotriazole to bromide is that bromide tends to give
prints a disagreable (to me) greenish tint in the blacks, and bzt is free
from that. It very much depends on the color of the viewing light, though.

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