Phobug
Reged: 22/05/2003
Posts: 160
Loc: London
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An acquaintance swears by it -- anybody have experience of stand development with Microphen? Is the risk of streaking too great with standard developers?
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taxor
Reged: 09/07/2004
Posts: 555
Loc: Lancaster, UK
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I've never heard of Microphen being used for stand development, although there's no reason not to try it. I always thought it was a technique used with acutance developers (Rodinal, Pyrocat, Dixactol etc). I tried it once with Dixactol but couldn't tell much difference between that and a 'normally' agitated process. I'm making a wild guess here but, I'm sure you'd get a useful compensating effect with a stand or semi stand process using Microphen. One other benefit (or curse - depending on who you talk to!) of stand development are 'edge-effects'. This is very noticable in some acutance developers and adds greatly to the impression of sharpness. Images can sometimes look as if they've been etched. I'm not sure whether you'd get this with Microphen. But try it anyway and let us know what your results are like! Regards, T.
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Phobug
Reged: 22/05/2003
Posts: 160
Loc: London
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Will do!
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Terrywoodenpic
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Reged: 21/01/2006
Posts: 272
Loc: Saddleworth UK
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That was a pretty ancient technique that was some what replaced when beutler type acutance developers were introdused to control the inherently high contrast of thin single coated films.
A favourite combination were adox films and neofin blue developer. This technique is far less effective on modern multilayer films. (neofin blue is till available)
A good half way house is to use any "Normal" film developer like Diluted D76 with some light intermittent agitation. such as inversion once a minute.
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