No more Paterson chemicals...

[s162216]

I happened to go on AG Photographic today to have a look at how much it would be for another bottle of Paterson Aculux 3 as my bottle is nearly a couple of years old now (but still going strong as of when I last used it a couple of months ago), only to find that every single Paterson chemistry product had vanished.

I then looked online for it elsewhere and discovered that Paterson have discontinued all of their chemistry due to low sales as of about 2 months ago, which sadly means an end to all of Geoffrey Crawley's developers (at least the ones still in production, the formulae for which were not published). This also leaves me having to find a replacement for Aculux 3, which was an excellent liquid developer as it was fine grained yet sharp, and had a nice long life, plus it was quite economical being only £1 more at AG for 1L compared to 500mL of Ilfosol 3.

 

[ancient_mariner]

I guess the economy was a part of the answer as to why it's disappeared. Sad though. I'd always used Ilford in the past, but it's nice to have a choice.

 

[RaglanSurf]

Process Supplies in Lindon are still showing it in stock.

 

[s162216]

Process Supplies in Lindon are still showing it in stock.

O.K thanks for that, I'll pick up a bottle of it from them as that'll save me having to search for a new developer.

 

[wickerman]

FX 55
Part A
Potassium Carbonate: 20g
Sodium Bicarbonate: 1.5g
Sodium Sulphite: 25g
Sodium Metabisulphite: 12g
Water to 1,000ml and dilute 1:9 for the working solution. Before use add B to the diluted 1:9 diluted A solution to form the working strength developer.

Part B
Sodium L-ascorbate: 1.3g
Phenidone: 100mg (0.1g)

Source: Amateur Photographer magazine