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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

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    Sunset by the Bay, San Francisco, CA 1994

    FP4+, Metol/Acetone, Print scan

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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Quote Originally Posted by Merg Ross View Post
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    First Ive heard of acetone in a developer, did autocorrect strike again or is that really a thing?

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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Quote Originally Posted by Gary Beasley View Post
    First Ive heard of acetone in a developer, did autocorrect strike again or is that really a thing?
    No. Water/Acetone/Sodium Sulphite/Metol. The acetone combines with the sodium sulphite to form sodium hydroxide, which acts as the accelerator. Simple, clean, and proven to produce beautiful negatives!

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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Ordinary sodium carbonate would seem to be an easier accelerant to fine-tune that sodium hydroxide, which is used in crystal form for very high contrast A&B lith developers, no acetone involved. But there's no arguing with Merg's results, which as usual are a delight to see.

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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Merg
    Thanks for going back into your archives with the last few days posts. As Drew just said they are a delight to see.

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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Quote Originally Posted by Merg Ross View Post
    No. Water/Acetone/Sodium Sulphite/Metol. The acetone combines with the sodium sulphite to form sodium hydroxide, which acts as the accelerator. Simple, clean, and proven to produce beautiful negatives!
    That is quite interesting. Is the formula posted anywhere we can see it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gary Beasley View Post
    That is quite interesting. Is the formula posted anywhere we can see it?
    This may work.

    https://www.photrio.com/forum/thread...2#post-1578910

    Scroll down to pages #32 & #35.

    There is an interesting history here. The original Metol/Acetone formula that many use as g. Paul Bishop's formula, was refined in collaboration with my father. Paul was a very fine portrait photographer working out of Berkeley. The initial experiments were for 120 film. Another person involved in the development was John Below, also of Berkeley, who was a professional chemist. John made Amidol for Brett Weston on a barter basis. He ultimately had an excellent collection of Brett's prints! John devised the Phenidone print formula that I presently use and was a good friend for many years.

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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

    Quote Originally Posted by Alan Curtis View Post
    Merg
    Thanks for going back into your archives with the last few days posts. As Drew just said they are a delight to see.
    Thank you, Alan and Drew.

    I should add, years of experimentation went into the final formulation of the referenced g. Paul Bishop developer. A talented group was involved, using the known chemical options. It was concluded, with the introduction of acetone, the developer had unique qualities. I was involved in some of those experiments, once developing a 120 roll that resulted without a trace of an image! But, they finally got it right.

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    Re: Large Format Landscapes

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    Dawes Oriental Garden by Nokton48, on Flickr

    4x5 Sinar Norma 90mm F8 Sinar Norma Super Angulon EFKE PL100 PMK+ Aristo 8x10 #2 RC Multigrade dev
    Love this one, Daniel! Near, far, texture, overall composition--well done!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Roberts View Post
    Love this one, Daniel! Near, far, texture, overall composition--well done!
    Thanks Michael! Your comments are much appreciated
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