FX-37 video on You tube "Testing T-Grain Film with a Sharp developer"

cmacd123

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for those wanting to know about using FX-37 developer, I noticed this new You Tube video today, featuring Mr. "Flic Film" himself.



their is another thread on making Fx-37 from Scratch.

Crawley's FX-37 Developer for T-Max/Delta Films

Gerald Koch submitted a new resource: (there was a url link here which no longer exists) - Crawley's FX-37 Developer for T-Max/Delta Films This developer is intended for use with T-Max and Delta films, although it will produce excellent results with traditional emulsions. FX-37 is designed to...
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The YouTube link doesn't show us anything about how FX37 sharpens the negatives. They need to show us a comparison between a standard film developer and the FX37 to see how the results compare.
 

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Keith Tapscott. said:
The YouTube link doesn't show us anything about how FX37 sharpens the negatives. They need to show us a comparison between a standard film developer and the FX37 to see how the results compare.
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+1.

And:
To really evaluate sharpness you have to look at the negative directly (at least with a very good 10x loupe), and not on scans (with their severe resolution and sharpness reduction) on a computer monitor (even further massive quality reduction by that).

He also made a mistake about the history of Delta 100 and T-Max 100: Kodak T-Max 100 was introduced to the market at first (in 1986), and Delta 100 came much later (in 1992; Delta 400 was introduced in 1990).
 

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Disclosing FX-37, BJP Mar 27 1996 p24, Geoffrey Crawley wrote:
........"Other than a very modest solvent effect also opposes the qualities conferred by modern emulsion technology and more adversely affects sharpness and definition than on traditional emulsions. If grain is too fine ,light scatter in the image increases when a negative is enlarged, reducing edge contrast of subject contours and especially that of fine detail.....This is true of traditional materials but is more apparent with the new inherently fine-grained ones." .........
 

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Alan,
Yes, I remember reading that part of Crawley's statement when I was using/mixing FX37. So I'm guessing people who just scan their negatives and those who only wet print might see things differently. Scanning wise, I always like a little thinner negative, but with Delta 100 and FX37 I'd have to have a little denser negative for wet printing.
 

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I tested FX-37 extensively a couple years ago and found that although it did result in negatives that appeared sharper, it did so at the cost of degraded tonality: transition between softly contrasting areas was rendered far more harshly with an aggressive, unpleasant look. Because of this I abandoned FX-37, since I value the preservation of the impression of tactile light.

YMMV, of course. For many, I'm sure the enhanced sharpness look will be the cat's meow.
 
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