For those Leicaphiles who love to do their own darkroom work, there is a new high resolution developer from Germany, call SPUR(Speed Photography Ultra Resolution ). The result of using SPUR with Agfa Copex Rapid, produce 600 lpmm, double the resolution of Kodak Technical Pan

SPUR AND AGFA COPEX

-- martin tai (martin.tai@sympatico.ca), January 16, 2002

Answers

Is it a liquid, which I prefer ? And, does anybody know if it available in the States ?

-- George L. Doolittle (geodoolitt@aol.com), January 16, 2002.

It is a liquid. For example of Ilford Delta 100 and Kodak Tmax developed with SPUR see Marcus's photos: Minox with SPUR

The original negatives are only 8mm x 11 mm

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 16, 2002.

SPUR 1+19 dilution, 20 degree C, TMAX 7 minutes

Delta 100 5 minutes

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 16, 2002.

Martin,

Thanks for the info. SPUR looks very interesting. Is there a source on our continent?

-- Ralph Barker (rbarker@pacbell.net), January 17, 2002.

Ralph, afaik, SPUR is not yet available in USA, it is quite new.

However it can be ordered direct from

https://ssl.kundenserver.de/shop.fotolaborgeraete.de/lumiere- uk/shop/index.htm

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 17, 2002.

Thanks, Martin.

In checking the site, it appears they aren't set up for credit card purchases - funds must be deposited to their bank account instead.

-- Ralph Barker (rbarker@pacbell.net), January 17, 2002.

Ralph, I am waiting for further test results of SPUR + Agfapan APX 25, before I purchase a few bottles to experiment myself.

I don't think online payment is as popular in Germany as yet.

What I find is that even "snail" mail from Canada to Germany is quite fast, three days, while it took sometimes two weeks to reach some USA cities.

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 18, 2002.

Martin,

You have a stockpile of APX25? The shelves around here have long since been emptied after its discontinuance.

Personally, I'm more interested in seeing what it might do with something like Ilford HP5+ exposed at around ISO 400. Delta 100-like grain on a 400 film would be quite nice.

-- Ralph Barker (rbarker@pacbell.net), January 18, 2002.

Ralph, I bought two 17m bulk rolls of Agfapan apx 25 last year. These film will be cut into about eighty rolls of 36 exposure 9.2mm film for my Minoxi

I got also 300' Techpan, (two rolls ) for cutting into 240 rolls of 36 exp Minox TP film, can last quite some time for me.

The company which sells SPUR also sells Polypan ISO 50 film, supposedly a fine grain BW film.

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), January 18, 2002.

Sample pictures with Agfa Copex Rapid + Nanospeed developer

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), May 07, 2002.

I forgot to mention, the preceding picture was taken by Marcus Dunkmann in Germany with Minox C camera.

The negative is only 8mm x 11mm

SPUR products are now available, here is price price list SPUR PRICELIST

Contact: 8x11film.com

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), May 07, 2002.

Kodak TMAX 100 + SPUR SLD / Minox C, by Marcus Dunkmann

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), May 07, 2002.

Martin,

1. All these Minox B&W prints, even onscreen have a certain characteristic look. Could it be that Minoxers develop film strictly for resolution rather than tonality? I owned a minox a decade ago for a short while, and my trial pics with APX 25, had the same look...

2. Do you know any Minox work online which is of people, or candid and street photography? Seems to me that a lot of these examples are still lifes, straining to prove a point about resolution...

-- Mani Sitaraman (bindumani@pacific.net.sg), May 07, 2002.

Mani, there are quite a few Minox galleries with general themes instead of architecture

Here is John Wonko Watson

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), May 08, 2002.

With Minox, many different style is possible, not necessarily all have the same look.

Don Krehbiel Gallery

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), May 08, 2002.

and our moderator Tony Rowlett Minox Gallery

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), May 08, 2002.

by Marcus Dunkmann, Agfa Copex Rapid, with Contax G1 and Carl Zeiss 90mm lens

-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), May 08, 2002.