Originally Posted by
Drew Wiley
I'd have to disagree with Bjorn on one point. I find the alkaline afterbath to be a useful
tool for fine-tuning the amount of image stain, analogous to selenium toning when
printing. It is particularly useful for thinner emulsion films which otherwise don't stain well. With FP4 and HP5 you do have to be careful not to overdo it, however. I've just run my first test with HP5 and Max Pyro. Results are obviously a little different from PMK or Pyrocat, but I can't do much better than this explanation until I actually make some prints this weekend; but I do expect some improvement in highlts and shadows.
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