Response to Alternative to Xtol

I may have made a mistake. I ment Atomal F not FF. You are right about FF, which is entirely different to A49. Up to the 1970s AGFA East Germany sold A49 as Atomal F and when AFGA East and West split up Orwo, the new East German company, changed all the former AGFA proprietary names by using the Agfa receipe book number and the first letter of the former product name: Atomal F = A49, Rodinal = R09, Neutol = N113 etc. At least at that time the products remained the same, although A49 was further improved in subsequent years. I have used AGFA Atomal FF but I am aware that it is different to A49. I know nothing about the formulation of Atomal Atomal FF. In fact Agfa produced a whole family of Atomal super fine grain products. Sadly AGFA Leverkusen took "normal" Atomal off the market a couple of years ago and only the Atomal FF remained. Agfa Atomal had similar charcteristics in comparison to A49, although I guess the formulation was rather different. A49 is based on one of the few East German colour developing compounds. Atomal developers developers had extremely fine grain, while maintaining good acutance and a particular nice tonality.

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