EFKE developers

garryl

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Fort Worth,

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• Jul 22, 2004

• #1

Browsing the data sheets of EFKE films from JandC Photo, I notice reference
to and times for EFKE FR-14, FR-16, and FR E-24 developers. Does anybody have any information about these products? What they are, what are their characteristics, or who handles them?

 

jandc

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• Jul 22, 2004

• #2

Efke FR-14 is similar to D-76. Efke no longer produces any of these developers and they are not available. FR E-24 was a high speed low grain developer with excellent push charasterics.

 

noseoil

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Tucson

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• Jul 22, 2004

• #3

For Efke 25 try PMK pyro. It gives very nice results with good tonal values, sharp edges and very smooth prints. Unblinkingeye.com has a decent list of developers for Efke.

 

Snapper

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Brighton, En

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Med. Format RF

• Jul 27, 2004

• #4

Do you have any timings for PMK + Efke 25 development? The 'massive dev chart' on www.digitaltruth.com only has times for Efke 100. Ta.

 

moretto

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35mm RF

• Mar 11, 2008

• #5

As far as I know, EFKE only delivers FR16, which is too fast to give satisfactory results(3-4 minutes). I am using D76, 1+1, for Efke KB25 and KB50 5-6 minutes, for KB100 about 10 minutes. Or Rodinal 1+100 for 12/14/16 minutes(25/50/100 asa).
For fast developing you can use Ilfosol S, 1+9, 4 mins for 100 asa, 3-3,5 mins for 25 and 50, but you won't have very good results, about the same as FR16.

 

Denis P.

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• Mar 12, 2008

• #6

The only remaining Efke (Fotokemika) chemicals are FR-16 developer and FF-2 fixer (both liquid concentrates). The also produce fixer in powdered form (FF-4, I think).
Nothing special, although I like the results I'm getting wuth FR-16 for paper development with Efke papers. Under certain conditions it amost acts as a warmtone developer (I noticed it mostly with my contact prints).

 

haris

• Mar 12, 2008

• #7

FR-16 is so called "universal" developer, that is, it is for film and paper. As Denis said, nothing special, but if you don't have anything else and are in a hurry, it will develop your film. I used it for developing EFKE papers, and few times I developed efke film (EFKE) it was OK. Then again, it was in my young photography days, so I didn't have much experience then (not that I have it much more today )...