[pure-silver] Re: Darkrooms
- From: eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:23:33 +0000
I'm glad I asked!
Thanks,
Elias
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Nicholas O. Lindan" <nolindan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <eroustom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > I thought I didn't have enough trays...
>
> You can _never_ have enough trays ...
>
> > Dev then water then stop?
> > Just curious.
>
> The water bath is used to lower paper contrast a tad.
> The technique is to over expose and underdevelop just
> like film. However, with paper it can be hard to
> underdevelop evenly because of the resulting very
> short developing time. It is easier to get even under-
> development if shortish dips in the developer are
> alternated with soaks in a water bath. There is
> (possibly) some effect from differential
> developer depletion in shadows Vs. highlights.
>
> Much the same can be done with very diluted developer
> but very dilute developers shift the tone of some papers
> to the red.
>
> The vaunted A130 and G262 developers are just
> slow working developers that give even, though incomplete,
> development in 2-3 minutes. Developing to completion
> in A130 - which takes about 6 minutes - produces results
> identical to D-72/Dektol.
>
> ==
> Nicholas O. Lindan
> Cleveland Engineering Design, LLC
> Cleveland, Ohio 44121
>
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