Pyrocat - Which No-Pyro DIY Dev. - Dev. Method is Head to Head?

I wonder what Mustafa's thoughts are?

pentaxuser

retina_restoration said:

All of the Pyro type developers use an unusually small amount of developing agent compared to more traditional developer recipes. THere's absolutely nothing unusual about the amount of ascorbate and phenidone in FX-55 and in fact, its a smaller amount compared to something like D-76.

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Paul, I surrender! I, too, can't figure out the "large amount" of developing agent comments about FX-55. Heck, my scales have a hard time even measuring that amount of Phenidone. I'll leave this thread run on its own, I'm oughta here.

pentaxuser said:

I wonder what Mustafa's thoughts are?

pentaxuser

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FWIW, as I understand it, what constitutes his "given" name is probably Umut rather than Mustafa.

MattKing said:

FWIW, as I understand it, what constitutes his "given" name is probably Umut rather than Mustafa.

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OK and thanks

pentaxuser

John Wiegerink said:

Paul, I surrender! I, too, can't figure out the "large amount" of developing agent comments about FX-55. Heck, my scales have a hard time even measuring that amount of Phenidone. I'll leave this thread run on its own, I'm oughta here.

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Hi John. I wasn't very clear. I did have a point which would have been better made in a more relevant thread. It was rather off-topic. In fact, I didn't really get what the OP's point really was.

Anyway, my typo could not be corrected without making subsequent posts nonsensical.

My point was that FX-55 contains 10 times the phenidone of PC-512 which by all accounts is a very decent developer, and which I will be trying next week.

john_s said:

Hi John. I wasn't very clear. I did have a point which would have been better made in a more relevant thread. It was rather off-topic. In fact, I didn't really get what the OP's point really was.

Anyway, my typo could not be corrected without making subsequent posts nonsensical.

My point was that FX-55 contains 10 times the phenidone of PC-512 which by all accounts is a very decent developer, and which I will be trying next week.

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Hey, no problem on this end!I have never used FX-55, but I have used Karl's PC-512 and found PC-512 to be a very good developer. I certainly don't know how it compares to FX-55, but somebody here probably has done a comparison of the two. There are no developers that I use and like that have chemicals in the mix that are so expensive that they would send me to the poorhouse. What is going to get me to the poorhouse the fastest in the blasted high price of good B&W enlarging papers. Enlarging paper is the most expensive part of the hobby for me at least.