Wednesday, April 20, 2011

DTR and a great negative too

Although the spread is imperfect, that isn't important. Today we achieved our first true P/N on the Efke 25 negative, fully developed and cleared, sharp and artifact free except where we lacked reagent, AND, a real diffusion transfer reversal onto a receiver sheet that was prepared here out of in-production materials that were never intended for instant photography, or DTR.

It was wonderful to see those little nucleating molecules where they should be, and get a great negative, too.

This is an important result that came a little faster than I expected: The Efke looks like it got about a 1 stop boost, and the processing time was 60 seconds.   Except for a slight waviness from the very irregular reagent spread, the negative is quite even, well gradated, and extremely detailed - probably at least as detailed as original T55, and perhaps more.

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