Pyrocat-HD, Semi Stand Dev, JandC 100 Pro - need help please...

**SAShruby** · 8-Jun-2006, 17:55

Well then, thanks for posts, I'll go shooting tonite one more time the same scenery. As I said I will do more presoak to clean dyes completely and do more agitation to see if I'll get even negs. I measured my negs with densitometer and B+F Densitiy in UV channel is 1.1, Dmax is 2.67.

Regarding Ansco/Agfa 130, I still would like to start with Amidol, I invested lost of money to buy chemicals, but Amidol id going to be from Greg. Can anybody sell me 100g of amidol? I would appreciate it. Photo Formulary will not ship it to Canada and JD Photochem does not have it until July 15th.

Thanks for the help.

**chris_4622** · 8-Jun-2006, 18:18

Try Artcraft Chemicals, I'm not sure if they ship to Canada though.

**John Berry** · 10-Jun-2006, 08:29

Originally Posted by SAShruby

Well then, thanks for posts, I'll go shooting tonite one more time the same scenery. As I said I will do more presoak to clean dyes completely and do more agitation to see if I'll get even negs. I measured my negs with densitometer and B+F Densitiy in UV channel is 1.1, Dmax is 2.67.

Regarding Ansco/Agfa 130, I still would like to start with Amidol, I invested lost of money to buy chemicals, but Amidol id going to be from Greg. Can anybody sell me 100g of amidol? I would appreciate it. Photo Formulary will not ship it to Canada and JD Photochem does not have it until July 15th.

Thanks for the help.

How does the dmax and fb+f read in the blue channel? It seems WAY to high to me. In the blue channel you want a DR of 1.6-1.7. Till the amidol gets here you can play with other paper and developer combos. I have changed my developing times to fit #3 azo so they are more usable in my coldlight enlarger. Granted, not as good as azo but not bad either.

**Amund BLix Aaeng** · 10-Jun-2006, 10:04

Originally Posted by chris fazio

Try Artcraft Chemicals, I'm not sure if they ship to Canada though.

They ship to Norway, Canada shouldn`t be a problem.

**SAShruby** · 12-Jun-2006, 07:27

Amidol is on its way to me.

**SAShruby** · 12-Jun-2006, 07:29

John,

I do not have color densitometer, so I don't know. I have Xrite T-361. Measures only in Ortho and UV channel.

**Andrew O'Neill** · 12-Jun-2006, 19:16

Are you sure your tubes are light tight? Have you tested them?
If your are certain that they are then you need to adjust how you are doing stand development. I use HP5+ with great success standing in tubes. For each agitation cycle, remove the film (with the lights off of course), invert it and re-incert it. Stand development doesn't work very well if you have large even toned areas in the negative such as a clear sky. My rest periods are 15, sometimes 20 minutes.