I tried adding 15 ml/liter of 1% benzotriazole to the developer and increasing the development time to 22 minutes. The negatives were unacceptably thin and still look like they have some base fog. It seems like I'll just need to print through the base fog and maybe forget the idea of albumen prints. I'll try tray development with some HC-110 or D-76 next. Even if I can up the DR and DMax, I'm concerned that the base fog will make my print times too long. I'm shooting two sheets of everything, so I'll have a full undeveloped set once I get it dialed in.
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