Mortensen's Glycin Variant Film Developer

[Andrew O'Neill]

I decided to give his developer a go...


https://youtu.be/rkqoubGg46M

[cowanw]

As regards soft focus lenses, I have never heard Mortensen ever used one.

[jnantz]

Thanks for showing this to us Andy ! I've had a recipe for MGV and wanted to use it for years, but I never have any glycin that's not mixed in 130 ..
From my sparce-notes, Mortensen used to develop his film for longer periods of time (2 hours stand)
... at least that was his 4D gamma infinity approach . Bullet proof negatives are my favorite to print. :)
I'd be careful, the Mortensen rabbit hole might lead you to make enlarged paper negatives and abandon your BTZS tubes, and ...
the Anselites will find out and you'll be greeted with pitchforks and torches! :)

[Andrew O'Neill]

Thanks for showing this to us Andy ! I've had a recipe for MGV and wanted to use it for years, but I never have any glycin that's not mixed in 130 ..
From my sparce-notes, Mortensen used to develop his film for longer periods of time (2 hours stand)
... at least that was his 4D gamma infinity approach . Bullet proof negatives are my favorite to print. :)
I'd be careful, the Mortensen rabbit hole might lead you to make enlarged paper negatives and abandon your BTZS tubes, and ...
the Anselites will find out and you'll be greeted with pitchforks and torches! :)

Uh ohhh... too late! I've been looking into using large paper negs! :D

[jnantz]

Uh ohhh... too late! I've been looking into using large paper negs! :D

:)

You enlarge on to developer saturated photo paper. There's a light show and then a beautiful negative. I've done it to make a long exposed in camera exposure I couldn't see the light show, and I got a color image :)

have fun :)

[Neal Chaves]

If it's from Mortensen, it must be good. He realized that the biggest secret is that there is no secret. He open-sourced his techniques and never acted the Guru, selling seekers their own personal Exposure Indexes, development times and his selected appliances.