I've finally taken the plung to try Pyro developing for B/W film. After a lot of reading and research, I 've found out that my B/W densitometer isn't right for Pyro stained negatives. I've been looking into color densitometers and have found a lot of mention to the X-Rite 810 - and there seems to be a lot of them out there for sale. However, today I stumbled across an old View Camera Magazine (March/April 2003) article written by Bob Herbst where he says that to get true readings of Pyro Stained negatives, you need a densitometer that also has a UV channel. He goes on to say that about the only one out there that has this capability is the X-Rite 361T.
What are all you Pyro veterans out there using, and is the 361T really the only that can do this? Before I buy a second densitometer, I want to know for sure whether it will work adequately when it comes to Pyro Stained negatives. Have any of you who may have this model done comparisons similar to Bob between the Blue Channel and the UV Channel readings. If so, were your results similar to those in Bob's article? What if I get a standard color densitometer and just add 20% to the density readings from the Blue Channel? That is about the differences in the readings in the article.
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