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In my experience, papers don't react to developer as film. While with film you can extend developing time to compensate underexposoure (pushing), in papers, extending developing time gives deeper blacks and more detail in highlights. Taking this in account, I always use the maximun recommended time for each paper: 3 minutes for FB and 2 minutes for RC (I'm using Dektol). But, the more important thing is to keep consistence...
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Interestingly, I recently read (in a book, but I forget which one - it would have been a reputable writer...) that pulling the paper early, while it may not give max-black, can be useful as you suggest Marty. I have not tried it myself. I must have read it previously but your mentioning the idea reminded me.
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Neutol WA is now made by Adox - if you can get Adox chemicals in Oz...
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I normally give 3mins development for Ilford FB paper in Ilford PQ. On the subject of print consistency, in his book Gradient Light, Eddie Ephraums mentions a factorial development system for maintaining print quality throughout a session. He suggests using a factor of 6, and based on the average emergence time of an image @20C of 30seconds. ie: 30 x 6 = 180 secs. It works well as your developer ages and the emergence time extends to say 40sec. ie: 40 x 6 = 240secs. It’s more or less what Bob mentioned in his first post.
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Thanks Ian - I have the ingredients (your site was the top result on google ) and I'm nearly out of Neutol WA. Worth a try.
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I've used both Ian's versions (standard and conc) of ID78 and they're excellent - nice tones, good capacity and long tray life. My standard developing time is 3 minutes at 20 degC.
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Dear photographers, please keep in mind - if you are on the soft (yellow) side of multigrade papers the maximum black is reduced. Th effect of contrast control is made by two (or three) layers with different spectral sensitivity. At maximum yellows you use only one of them.
I got a few boxes of old but still ok Ilford paper of gradation 1. It is fascinating to see that I can get decent prints form that, with deep black in it. |
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