Re: Paper Negative Developers?

Hi:

Dektol can be tamed by diluting. Some pinholers use high contrast film
and process it in hightly diluted dektol to cut down contrast. 1-10
upto 1-30. could alse try adding baking powder which lowers the pH which
will give lower contrast

Gord

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Beau Schwarz wrote:

> Hi! Based on a View Camera article, I've thought about trying D76 as the
> developer for paper negatives. However, in looking at a Kodak Dataguide,
> Dektol will develope 120 sheets of paper while D76 will develope approx. 16
> 8x10 sheets of film. So the question is how many sheets of paper will a
> gallon of D76 develope? How do you tell when the developer is near
> exhaustion? Or would it be best to use it as a one shot developer? Is there
> some way of 'taming' dektol, so it gives a less contrasty neg?
>
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Received on Thu Apr 11 23:52:15 2002