EFKE KB25 processing

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Hi,

what you describe is exactly the Beutler (=Neofin blau) look - high acutance, sharp edges, lots of micro-contrast, but bad midtones, a kind of etched look (like traditional engravings), sometimes derisively called 'soot and whitewash'. This may be great for certain kinds of landscape or architectur photography (actually, right now I'm testing developers to get this look), but certainly is not what you want for portraits - there, grain-dissolving developer's WITHOUT edge-effects will be much better - since for portraiture smooth skintones (= low micro-contrast, fine grain) and not overly pronounced edges are usually best.

I personally use A49 (1+1) when I want to shoot portraits (Perceptol or other super-fine-grain developers will also work), but used Rodinal (and am testing PyrocatHD, Beutler and a Metol-2-bath) for landscapes where I want extra sharpness.

Conclusion: While it is not good to change developers all the time, on the other hand there are certain types of developers that work best with certain kinds of photography, so you might choose 2 very different developers and get to know them, to use for specific purposes;

or just use ID11 for everything (will give good results with any kind of film and any kind of motives - but not excel in any category either - it is 'middle-of-the-road'.

Roman

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