Quick question about making D-23.

[Bill Burk]

The first pinch of sulfite method dates back to The Amateur Photographers' Handbook, Aaron Sussman, as far back as I know.

It looks like advice from further back in time. The Chemistry of Photography from Mallinckrodt Chemical Works 1940 mentions it. PICTOL was their trademark for Metol

 

[darkroommike]

Thanks, it sounds as if the pinch at the start of the make-up is easier


pentaxuser

Yup, depends on your water. For example, when I mixed Kodak's D-163 the first time I used tap water at the correct temp and got a very fine precipitate that I could not remove with a coffee filter. Lesson learned, I now make it up with distilled water. Other chemicals I mix with boiled water.