I'm curious as too what print developer everyone is using for black and white and with what paper. I'm currently using Forte NB paper with Dektol 1:3 for two minutes, 68 degrees.
I'm curious as too what print developer everyone is using for black and white and with what paper. I'm currently using Forte NB paper with Dektol 1:3 for two minutes, 68 degrees.
I'm using Dektol 1:3 as well, though the RC paper I've been using appears to be fully developed in just one minute as long as the room is warm. I think Dektol is pretty much the "default" print developer.
If a contact print at arm's length is too small to see, you need a bigger camera. :D
Dektol 1:1 for enlarging, Amidol for contacts.
Rodinal 1:10 for Ilford MG FB warm and AZO
Dektol 1:2 for Ilford MG FB
Agfa Neutol WA 1:7 for both AZO and Ilford FB warm
Ilford PQ Universal 1+9. Nothing wrong with Dektol, it's just a bit less hassle to start from a liquid rather than having to mix stock from a powder.
Scratch mixed D72 (Dektol) for cold tone pics. I like working with fresh mixed stock from well stored powders. No suprises ever. The price is right too. I make D76 for the same reasons.
Not been happy with any warm tone paper/developer I tried. Hate pink brown, green, and assorted other yuck colors. Dark brown tones are the target. When I get close, the manufactures either change or discontinue the paper.
I am looking for what Kodak used to call a warm black. Can`t find it. Most everything is a neutral black accentuated by Bromophen to cold. When Ilford stopped chemicals, I bought one pack of Dektol, liked the warmer tones, and been making it ever since. I purchased the scale about 1960 and it`s been in use since. Also found a balance in my father in law`s garage. He used it in medical school in 1930. Massive cast iron base and a design that screams 1900. Works fine.
Try Forte with the old Ansco 130 (available from Photographer's Formulary), or better still, Fine Art Versaprint. Both use glycin. 130 is really warm, Versaprint and Forte is gorgeous.
Bruce Barlow
author of "Finely Focused" and "Exercises in Photographic Composition"
www.brucewbarlow.com
Dektol at 1:2 for neutral tones on Kentmere paper, at 1:3 for a bit warmer tone on Ilford warm-t0ne. Amidol for contact prints on Azo.
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Another vote for 130. I think Forte is similar to if not the same as Bergger. Bergger is wonderful in 130.
Ansco 130 with the last of my Agfa Multicontrast. I've got a bottle of Amidol on the shelf which I haven't gotten around to using yet.
Wilhelm (Sarasota)
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