[pure-silver] Re: Old Paper Developer Question

I can't speak to the anti-fog abilities of glycin or
amidol based developers, but in my experince, amidol
developers oxidize REALLY fast and amidol itself isn't
cheap.  I'm talking literally 2 hours of life and a
limited number of prints.
Eric

--- Don Sweet <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have few boxes of 25+ year old enlarging paper,
> including Ilfobrom and Portriga Rapid.  It is
> unopened, so I decided before blazing away I should
> look for some information about how to best to
> process it, particularly to minimise fog. First I
> sourced some benzotriazole which I thought could
> just be added to Dektol or Neutol or Bromophen
> developer.  
> 
> Then following links from the UnblinkingEye website
> I found some suggestions that both amidol-based or
> glycin-based developers are more resistant to fog
> than the usual MQ or PQ blends.  Does anyone know if
> that is right, and whether either of them is likely
> to be a better developer for my old paper?
> 
> Thanks
> Don Sweet



      
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