paper negativesn and warm tone developer

Hi there,

Staring at an old bottle of Agfa warm tone developer in the darkroom, I was
wondering if anyone had ever used a warm tone developer for B+W paper
negatives. It is said that used or aged diluted developer(dektol etc).
will make warmer prints and also less contrasty pinhole paper negatives.
However with old developer the data you get will not be consistent and will
make it difficult to build up a good datatbase of exposures times. With
warm tone developers the image usually comes up much slower and the
developer is usually more diluted than normal. Anyone tired doing it this
way?

Ed

Edward Levinson
Specilaizing in Fine Art and Editorial Pinhole Photography
online portfolio at http://www.awa.or.jp/home/edo/
Received on Mon Feb 26 21:01:43 2001