sanking
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For informative reading I would suggest that all of you interested in the issue of staining developers have a look at the following thread on the LF forum, particulary the last several threads (as of 11:30 EST, 7-90-06).
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?p=169129#post169129
Bear in mind that Steve Simmons has been claiming greater highlight detail for PMK over Pyrocat-HD based on his tests of these two developers published in the July/August 2004 issue of View Camera. Turns out that his comparison was not based on real silver prints, graded paper or VC, but on scans.
Bearing in mind that Simmons rejected a very thorough manuscript on this subject, submitted by Jorge, which contained quite a number of *real* silver prints, I find this absolutely shocking. I am surprised that the facts tooks so long to come out, but if you look carefully in his article Simmons carefully avoided mentioning that the conclusions were based on scans. In fact, he suggested that they were based on projection printing.
Sandy
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?p=169129#post169129
Bear in mind that Steve Simmons has been claiming greater highlight detail for PMK over Pyrocat-HD based on his tests of these two developers published in the July/August 2004 issue of View Camera. Turns out that his comparison was not based on real silver prints, graded paper or VC, but on scans.
Bearing in mind that Simmons rejected a very thorough manuscript on this subject, submitted by Jorge, which contained quite a number of *real* silver prints, I find this absolutely shocking. I am surprised that the facts tooks so long to come out, but if you look carefully in his article Simmons carefully avoided mentioning that the conclusions were based on scans. In fact, he suggested that they were based on projection printing.
Sandy