Excalibur2
Member
Well I'm way out of touch for developing B/W negs after about 15 years, and used to use Johnson's Unitol for convenience with FP4...everytime I used it, used to put marbles in the bottle to keep the air out and it lasted for ages.
Well you can't seem to get Unitol anymore and can't find an equivalent, so if I'm say using FP4, not a 3 films a week type of guy and not pushing the film and using Medium format so grain is less of a problem, and want excellent developer keeping properties that is not expensive:-
What do you guys think of my suggestion to buy Ilford ID-2 to make 5L, split the powder roughly in 5 to use 1L at a time......or has anyone more exciting suggestions that you can buy now in the UK, as I can't believe ID-2 is "the" ultimate developer of all time, for all types of film and photo subjects, otherwise other developers wouldn't exist (if you are not pushing film).
Well you can't seem to get Unitol anymore and can't find an equivalent, so if I'm say using FP4, not a 3 films a week type of guy and not pushing the film and using Medium format so grain is less of a problem, and want excellent developer keeping properties that is not expensive:-
What do you guys think of my suggestion to buy Ilford ID-2 to make 5L, split the powder roughly in 5 to use 1L at a time......or has anyone more exciting suggestions that you can buy now in the UK, as I can't believe ID-2 is "the" ultimate developer of all time, for all types of film and photo subjects, otherwise other developers wouldn't exist (if you are not pushing film).