GEVAERT G.33 Soft Developer

[titrisol]

Thanks a lot!
conundrum resolved
Those Focal Press books were good, I gave mine away a couple of years ago.

[Kino]

Originally Posted by titrisol

I think there is something wrong in the numbering, film developers had numbering 210-230s, paper developers 250-260s. So it maybe 233?
The only one I've found that is close is G212
* Water, 125F/52C 750 ml
* Metol 2 g
* Sodium Sulfite (anhydrous) 25 g
* Hydroquinone 1.5 g
* Sodium Carbonate (monohydrate*) 35 g
* Potassium Bromide 0.5 g
* Cold water to make 1L

Given the amount of Metol, this should be quite vigorous? or am I wrong?

Sorry, Tom; I did't see this posting for some reason...

The experiences I have had (admittedly few) so far, are that it does produced denser than normal negatives, but the detail doesn't block up as much as say D76.

I haven't had time to do a real controlled comparison, or to even print the negatives I have developed so far, so I am afraid I am not much help in this regard, Sorry!

However, what I have seen from neg scans looks promising for subjects that can profit from a longer gray scale and diffuse grain structure.

[titrisol]

Well the amounts of metol and HQ are very low, and the re is more M than HQ so me was wrong in the initial asusmption.

yes this shoul dbe very soft acing, with nice detail in shadows and highlights that do not block

[Ian Grant]

I agree with Titrisol, there's definitely something wrong here. It needs checking in the Gevaert manual of photography.

Kino, I think the books you are referring to are by Jacobson. I have them in the UK.