I tray process my film and find it to be a tedious chore, and as one famous phot ographer said "Photography is 20% inspiration and 80% drugery". I am quite satis fied with the quality of my negatives and was wondering with all the posts about the easier method with drum processing, don't you lose the adjacency effect wit h constant agitation? According to the Master photographer "Ansel Adams" he disc overed that the rest intervals between agitations actually allow for something c alled the "adjacency effect" that causes negatives to be sharper. It's somewhat subtle effect caused by the microscopic exchange of the oxidents across the boun daries between highlight and shadow areas. This causes the edges to be slightly denser on the highlight side and slightly less dense on the shadow side, giving the appearence or greater separation between the two. Constant agitation elimina tes this effect so he recommends against it. I need to know if this theory is st ill true today with todays modern films and developers or is it outdated or disp roved information? I know that they're famous photographers that use drum proces sing exclusively and are world renowned for their work and I can't stop wonderin g how much better their work would have been if they did the 80% drugery?
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