B&W reversal process loss of quality?

[James Drukeli]

I'm curious, is there a loss of quality/sharpness after the reversal process? I'm referring to the DIY stuff, not dr5. I've been looking into the process lately, and it seems that every reversal I see is quite grainy. Anyone have any example of crisp reversal film success stories?

 

[Ian Grant]

Welcome, no there's an increase in quaility, Many years ago I went to a lecture and saw superb B&W reversal prints made from B&W slides, admittedly by a research student sponsored by Kodak, but he was using FP4.

Ian

 

[James Drukeli]

Welcome, no there's an increase in quaility, Many years ago I went to a lecture and saw superb B&W reversal prints made from B&W slides, admittedly by a research student sponsored by Kodak, but he was using FP4.

Ian

Excellent to hear. Do you happen to have any links to good working reversal formulas? The Ilford pdf link that was so widely posted seems to have gone down.

 

[Athiril]

If youre using FP4+ then 5mg of potassium iodide per litre of working developer in a negative process gives much greater image resolution and detail, so I imagine doing that in the first developer would work too.

T-Max and Delta are still better however, I have a good recipe for them here
https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/reversal-processing-of-t-grain-films.124039/#post-1639338