Freestyle Advanced ABC Pyro

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Freestyle ABC Pyro Plus 33 L

I bought few chemicals from Freestyle and saw there Advanced ABC Pyro for around 25 dollars. If I am not wrong , you can make 33 liters of developer from that chemistry. By the way old ABC Pyro formula makes few liters of developers.

Is Advanced one is lot more diluted ? I think it would make the stain - MAY BE - lot dimmer but I am not sure.

33 liters is a such a beast of poison around in home and I have passed but still my mind is there.

I am using cheapest film I can find - Darko sends me Polypan F / not Ilford / - and using with Elmar 35mm with 50 ASA setting.

I have 500cc- half liter - Paterson tank and Kodak 3 gallon dry fixer on the way.

What do you advise ? Does it work just as the old one or different new developer ?

Umut

 

[Rick A]

Are you referring to Formulary's ABC Plus Pyro 33 L kit? It is designed for rotary processing, probably not good for daylight tanks or tray developing. If you want a good Pyro developer that's inexpensive then get Pyrocat-HD. Get the powder kit and mix in glycol so it will last longer.

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Yes , that was the developer I was talking about. Its lots of developer and I wanted it due to I love Weston smoothness at the grades and the quality I like to see at his catalogs and due to that developers price. Too good to be true or not. I have no knowledge about that kit. Is there anyone who can put more information ?

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Thank you Michael , I want to ask why they put ABC brand if it is no more related with D1 ? Marketing ?

Umut

 

[pdeeh]

You don't have to make up all 33l at once.

 

[Rick A]

Quote from the product description--

"ABC Plus Pyro -- Rollo Pyro -- is a formula developed by Harold Leban specifically for rotary processing in Jobo® equipment or BTZS® tubes. Thanks to Carl Weese for his painstaking testing and allowing us to use his information in our instruction sheets. The testing was done on several hundred negatives under a wide range of lighting conditions, being developed in Jobo® Expert drums. The results were clean negatives that can be processed in fairly short times at a relatively low (70°F) temperature in a single batch of chemistry. This formula however does not perform well in tray development because it produces a strong silver image with very little stain."

Link to instruction sheet:
https://store-59x7hd.mybigcommerce.com/content/01-5070.pdf

After reading the tech sheet, I don't see this as a viable easy to use developer, and especially don't see it as the "magic bullet" that you seek. I've expressed this before, YOU and only you, MUST make the proper tests for your own shooting techniques and developing regime to achieve the final outcome YOU desire. There are no shortcuts, and copying others will lead to frustration and despair on your part. The fun of film is making your own discoveries that lead to your final procedure to fully exploit of your look that you want others to see. Only you can fine tune your development to take full advantage or what you and how you shoot the equipment you use.

Fear of failure will only stop you from succeeding, as you will never know success until you have failed.