Max Pyro by Gordon Hutchings

[symmar_man]

I had posted this on the LF Board earlier and thought I would post here also.

Just wondering if anyone that is a View Camera Magazine subscriber has read the preview article in the subscriber section by Gordon Hutchings? Gordon has a new pyro film developer, Max Pyro, that he has just released.

I am really excited about something that Gordon feels is better than PMK. There was some talk two years ago at the LF Conference and again I heard there was more talk about a new developer from Gordon this year.

The article I referred to is on the View Camera web site in the Subscriber Section. I don’t want to give away the entire article, but the target criteria that Gordon lists are as follows:

1. Full ISO speed
2. Straight line gamma curve
3. Minimal general fog and fog stain
4. Controlled image stain
5. Full contrast potential for platinum and other alternative systems
6. Rapid development
7. Any processing method including stainless steel hangers and JOBO

If he has met all of these, and I have no doubt that he wouldn’t, otherwise why release it, I think this would be of great interest to those that are pyro users? I know I am interested in more information.

According to the article, Bostick & Sullivan will be the source for Max Pyro. I cannot find anything on the B&S web site at this time. Has anyone else heard anything?

B. Dalton

 

[gainer]

What part of West Virginia? I'm in Gilmer County.

 

[JBrunner]

It's available on the website now. I'll be trying it.

 

[Ian Grant]

It's not a published formula unfortunately and only available in kit form.

Ian

 

[Uhner]

I can’t help it; but I find Max Pyro to be a more fitting name for a Marvel villain than to a film developer…

 

[waynecrider]

I can’t help it; but I find Max Pyro to be a more fitting name for a Marvel villain than to a film developer…

Actually a film is in production right now and will come out the end of 2009 about a crazed photographer who sets things on fire so he can take pictures. He looses his mind from not wearing gloves while developing his LF film in Pyro. The character's moniker becomes Pyro Man.
I'm sure there will be T-Shirts

 

[Trevor Crone]

Actually a film is in production right now and will come out the end of 2009 about a crazed photographer who sets things on fire so he can take pictures. He looses his mind from not wearing gloves while developing his LF film in Pyro. The character's moniker becomes Pyro Man.

Wayne, I think you've been watching too much, 'Who's Line Is It Anyway'?

 

[Uhner]

Actually a film is in production right now and will come out the end of 2009 about a crazed photographer who sets things on fire so he can take pictures. He looses his mind from not wearing gloves while developing his LF film in Pyro. The character's moniker becomes Pyro Man.
I'm sure there will be T-Shirts

I’ll buy one.

 

[sanking]

I really liked the following snarly remark by a pyro non-believer that appeared on the LF forum.

"When I tested PMK over a period of a couple months and concluded that it did nothing any other developer couldn't do I was told that I was wrong, that PMK was the greatest developer ever invented, so good it would virtually make the photographs for you without the need for a camera. So I don't see how it could possibly be improved upon."

Sandy King
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Actually a film is in production right now and will come out the end of 2009 about a crazed photographer who sets things on fire so he can take pictures. He looses his mind from not wearing gloves while developing his LF film in Pyro. The character's moniker becomes Pyro Man.
I'm sure there will be T-Shirts

 

[Photographica]

It's not a published formula unfortunately and only available in kit form.

Ian

I was fortunate to speak with Gordon about his new pyro last spring. He indicated that the formulary was a bit difficult to produce so it would probably only be offered as a kit -- from B&S for example.

 

[eric johnson]

I downloaded the article from the View Camera web site a few weeks ago. It was in the subscriber's section. Very interesting. I will be trying it this weekend.

eric