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Subject: [OM] Re: Fast B&W film?
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:04:52 +0000
Heavens to Betsy, Earl!  I guess I'm geekier than you.  I love Rodinol, even 
for Plus-X sometimes, but I never wet my Tri-X, shot at ASA 400, with anything 
but D-76 1:1 @ 70F. for 9 minutes.  Talk about stuck in a rut, but then, if it 
ain't broke....

Walt

--
"Anything more than 500 yards from 
the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
Edward Weston

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Earl Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> R. Jackson wrote:
> 
> >On Jul 12, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Earl Dunbar wrote:

> Well, it's better to be a geek, uncool, or whatever, and get the shot 
> captured/processed well than to be at the bleeding edge.  I am used to 
> Tri-X @ 200 in HC-110 in my sleep, with great results; I never believed 
> in the "effective film speed depends on developer" school  Zone III 
> detail is Zone III detail, and if you ain't got it, it's an exposure 
> issue, not a developer issue, IM.  Now that Tri-X has changed, it's 
> apparently a true 400, I don't have a workflow for it.  I have one or 
> two rolls exposed at 400, and I'll probably soup one in Rodinal 1:50 and 
> one in DD-X 1:4 and see what it looks like.
> 
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