FA-1027 Film Developer

My first printing session with FA-1027 negatives was pure pleasure. I kept repeating the same word when the print inspection light was turned on – “magnificent!” Negatives also printed easily – I didn’t have to “fight” them to get them to print well.

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Comments from an FA-1027 user:

"... 1) very cleanworking- can find no surface imperfections on negatives ( pinholes, streaking, etc. )

2) most fog free negatives I've ever dealt with

3) Extremely sharp negatives - comparable or better that acutol, Fx39, Xtol, pyro developers

4) unobtrusive grain, very fine and sharp yet easy to focus

5) tonality very smooth..."

Micael Emanuel

FA-1027 is a brand new, highly concentrated, high acutance film developer, that performs beautifully with all black and white films. It is a liquid which dilutes either 1:9 or 1:14. Among it’s characteristics are:

• The ability to produce an optimum negative with any black and white film, whether standard “random grain” (HP-5, FP-4, Pan –F, Tri-X, etc), or “fabricated grain” or “T-Grain” (Ilford Delta 100, Kodak T-Max, Agfa Acros). You get the same, full information negative, only the development times change.

• The grain is very fine, but also very sharp. There is no soft grain fuzziness that is apparent from low activity, sulfite action “fine grain” developers like D-23, D-25, Microdol-X, etc. There is no developing action on unexposed silver which creates excess fog you have to print through (as with DD-X), which can be troublesome in printing. Printing times with FA-1027 require ˝ the exposure time they do with Ilfotec DD-X.

• FA-1027 maintains a precise balance between Phenidone and the developing agent Hydroquinone. It also utilizes 2 restrainers, Potassium Bromide and Benzatriazole. This accounts for it’s remarkable performance.

• Ansel Adams, in The Negative, refers to acutance as “edge sharpness”. My HP-5 negatives developed in FA-1027 resemble the clear, crisply defined Tri-X/HC-100 negatives I was so used to; without the high contrast effect.

• Prints made from FA-1027 negatives show broad distinct breaks of  tone in all areas. There is none of the D-76-like high value compression, and no loss of density in Zones VI and below as with HC-110 (the “HC” in HC-110 stands for “high contrast”). Negatives are optimum: high in local contrast, low in overall contrast, with very high acutance.

• Plus and minus development with FA-1027 will also yield superior negatives. The same distinct breaks of tone are in evidence, with the contrast either raised or lowered. With other developers, you’ll get an overall gain or loss in density with only a slight contrast change.

This is the best black and white film developer available. Try it and if you don’t agree, we’ll give you your money back.

#75-0010 .9 liter bottle (1 US quart)..…….$12.97

If you would like a free Technical Information sheet available on FA-1027, we’ll send it on request.