I prefer liquids because you can mix single shots. Right now I use Rodinal a lot for Delta 100, HP5, and FP4 (all 4x5, 8x10, 7x10 so I don't mind the grain). I had been using HC-110 for some time previously. To me, the shortcoming of dry chems is that you have to mix entire batches. I don't have a formal darkroom, and I don't have any of those flotation devices either so - it's foolhardy for me to mix an entire batch of, say, D76 that I use so infrequently that's it's going to go bad before I can finish it.
BUT - apart from Rodinal, I've recently moved pretty much to dry. For lith film, I predominantly use a concoction suggested by Gord, and there's no way to make this except from scratch. I also now make my D76 from scratch when I need it for such films as Maco or HIE. Mixing D76 from scratch is kind of a pain compared to the flask-popping you can achieve w/ Rodinal. But it isn't THAT inconvenient, and the ingredients are a joke anyhow. This frees me to do one-shot mixing. The two drawbacks to dry: you need a triple beam or one of those digital scales, and when you call Photo Formulary for ingredients, there's a good chance you will have to have your name added to John Ashcroft's Terrorists-against-American-Freedom file. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "gregg b. mc neill" <gbmcne...@hotmail.com> To: <Pinhole-Discussion@p at ???????> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:53 PM Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Powder vs. Liquid > Does anyone have any preference between powder developer vs. liquid > developer? > > As far as convience, It would seem that liquid would be faster. > > are there any downsides to liquid? > > thanks in advance for your thoughts... > > gregg b. mc neill
