you are an excellent teacher

@DavidHancock

20 күн бұрын

Thank you! 😃

I use the same electric kettle to make d76 as i use to make a pour over. I need to descale it before my next batch

@DavidHancock

11 ай бұрын

That's a good idea and great for precise temperature control.

Hi David, I'm hoping that we will advance further than pre-packaged mixers. I'm a Metol and Sodium sulfite base mixer like D76, D23 and Perceptol based developers and use variations on mixes temperatures and times. I hope that this series will be enlightening for all.

@DavidHancock

11 ай бұрын

Thank you and definitely. This is a long-term project and this year it's going to start slowly with basic skills and build into more evaluative videos.

It is really surprising that based on my experience with the Kodak D76, I was able to develop RC and Harman paper prints with it and it worked very well, in two minutes or less. It is not only for 35mm film.

@DavidHancock

8 ай бұрын

Definitely yes. Any developer will work on paper, in different ways and, generally, a lot slower than would paper developer. But many film developers have very nice results when developing paper because the images come in more slowly and the results are easy to control.

@pleps5

8 ай бұрын

@@DavidHancock When I mixed Kodak 76D for the first time, I used it as a stock and did not dilute it with the paper. I used it slightly warmer than 20 degrees, and it was very active and fast, developing the paper within seconds. After a lot of paper, it began to gradually weaken in its activity, so the development took more than about two or three minutes. Minutes, until I became completely exhausted after a while. The color of the prints becomes black-brown when I am active, until it becomes light brown, after the solution becomes exhausting. In fact, what made me try it is that I read a lot about the impossibility of being able to get on paper. Many say that it is difficult. It will not work, as it is intended for film, and because I could not obtain a paper developer, I wanted to try it as a suitable alternative, and see the product myself, and the result was that the experiment was successful, and I have not encountered what is said that it will never work or that it will be very slow. This is all untrue, as its composition makes no difference. Much of the paper developer is the same material, the difference is that the film is added borax and the paper is added carbonate as an accelerator.

Nice video, thanks! I did get nervous when you were pouring the water with those binders right behind the jug... disaster waiting to happen, I thought, but fortunately all went well :-)

@DavidHancock

11 ай бұрын

:D

A tip I saw in another video was to cut open the bag of powder underwater, and then you don't create any dust at all. A little tricky to do in a jug though...

@DavidHancock

11 ай бұрын

That's curious. I haven't tried it and it would seem like it would clog the opening. But it would definitely keep the dust down.

I started with TMax dev, but moved over to D-76 about a year ago. I love D-76. It’s getting harder to find though..

@DavidHancock

11 ай бұрын

Yeah. I had trouble last time. There is a liquid concentrate that's good and there are some non-Kodak options that are the same formulas.

Is it possible to do small batches ? Let’s say for like 500ml worth of developer, rather than making the whole thing and the going bad

@DavidHancock

7 ай бұрын

No. The chemical compounds in the package are not likely to be evenly dispersed and mixing small batches will provide uneven and unpredictable results, at best, as the batches will have different chemical makeups.

Hey make a video on making c41 chemical from scratch DIY 😊

@DavidHancock

11 ай бұрын

I don't know how to do that from scratch, but I'll be doing videos on all five of the home C-41 kits.

@ambienhere

11 ай бұрын

@@DavidHancock :( I really wanna make a DIY chemistry, do you know any BnW formula?

@DavidHancock

11 ай бұрын

I do. Here is an affiliate link to a GREAT book for that: www.amazon.com/Darkroom-Cookbook-Alternative-Process-Photography/dp/1138959189/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28MA7B8JO1BWC&_encoding=UTF8&tag=5119llc-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=5deccdf78d3f7cc01c3b500993d34de3&camp=1789&creative=9325

I can remember the smell

@DavidHancock

11 ай бұрын

Fix even more so. 😄

god i hated mixing xtol and seeing crystals and dust all over the stuff 😂

@DavidHancock

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, powder is definitely a bit harder to mix. I made a mistake the first time I used Accufine and the powder didn't fully dissolve (but wasn't visible) and it left streaks over an entire tank's worth of film. I always prefer the liquid developers.

I know the chemicals in there. You don't want them in your nose. I mix outside, into a big container so dont have to funnel the powder in, and just microwave the gallon jugs to get up to temp.

@DavidHancock

11 ай бұрын

I concur on not breathing these for sure. Are you microwaving the chemistry after it's mixed? That seems like it would be dangerous. If you're just bringing the water to temp, that's probably an easier way to do it that me using the stove.

@lilkngstr

11 ай бұрын

Gallon jugs of distilled water only. I used to be worried about leaks and exploding bottles, but have done it this way for a while now.