Response to Compensating developers and accutance developers

I should have said I do not know what compensation means to you gentlemen. Stand development is not my technique by any means. Perhaps I apply it, when I do, in unorthodox ways. I have no desire to produce a shoulder within what might be called the normal log exposure range plus an allowance for possible overexposure. I would like to straighten the curve of film developed to less than normal contrast so as to keep the speed point as close as possible to that for each of the curves for other contrasts. This does not happen with Rodinal and most films when it is used as the manufacturer expects. I apply stand development to undiluted developers mostly to show that it can be done and also that it has the effect I want. I don't think I contradicted myself. I did contradict just about everybodt else, I suppose. I have no desire to peoduce a premature shoulder, and in the days when I first heard the term, neither did anyone else. We were all concerned with raising the toe.

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