DEAR ERIC, I once printed a show of 45 16X20s on Oriental Seagull graded paper using Amidol. I found that using a little citric acid to stabilize it kept it very active for just over four hours. I used to mix a "before lunch" batch and an "after lunch" batch. The last few days before the framing deadline I also mixed an "after dinner" batch! (LOL) It is a great developer giving wonderful blacks but it certainly demands discipline to make use of its limited life. Not as convenient as modern developers. CHEERS! BOB -----Original Message----- From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric Nelson Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 1:26 AM To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [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 ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ============================================================================ ================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. __________ NOD32 2882 (20080218) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.