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From: jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: tech pan developer
Message-ID: <7912@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 12:09:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 12:09:10 1985
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In article <704@asgb.UUCP> mike@asgb.UUCP (Mike Rosenlof) writes:

>> Was there a note here recently about using HC-110 to develop
>> technical pan film?  If anybody has tried to do this for
>> pictorial photography I'd like to hear how it worked out.
>> 

>I wouldn't be TOO hopeful here.  Tech pan is such a high contrast film
>that you need developers specifically designed to produce low contrast
>results.

I have had decent results with a dilution of HC-110 with tech pan. You
can indeed get the low contrast characteristic from HC-110 if you spend
some time reading the data sheets. Technidol is still the best, but
HC-110 is also one of the recommended developers on the tech pan data
sheet.

/jordan
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