I shoot whole plate and 11x14 formats. Final prints are Platinum/Palladium. Up to now have contacted printed the negs on hand coated Platinum/Palladium paper. Usually took a few tries to get a final print even with keeping scrupulous notes. Materials costs got to be very, very scary to total up... so went to scanning the negatives (burning and dodging which I couldn't do with contact printing the original negatives) and making digital negatives. I also added a step tablet aside the image and very soon was able to make final Platinum/Palladium prints most of the time. So... Up to now have used a modified Zone System to expose and process the negatives (in Rodinal). Read an older article in ViewCamera magazine that Diafine is the best developer to use for producing negatives that will be scanned. Anyone have any advice? Have consistently used Rodinal since the early 1970s but am very willing to switch.
Greg