Re: Using Baking Soda in Dektol?

 Beau,
I would first suggest a shorter exposure time in camera for less contrasty negs. If Dektol is not sufficient at a dilution of 1:20, an alternative would be to use film developer in a weak dilution. Rodinal in a dilution of 1:100 for about 6.5 minutes looks dynamite. Actually, Rodinal can't be beat for paper negs. A small bottle costs about 5 dollars, and due to the small amount used it lasts quite some time. At weak dilutions the developer is depleted quickly, so you need to start with a large volume, say 1 liter. If not the negs can get streaked and become quite unusable.
Don
  Beau Schwarz <ejschwarzjr@hotmail.com> wrote: I finished my first of pinhole paper negatives last night. For developer, I
used 1 oz. Dektol and 20 oz. water as a one shot developer; each neg. was
processed for 90 sec. in a tray using constant agitation. They look pretty
contrasty. Someone in the group mensioned Baking Soda, I think, to adjust
the Ph (and hopefully lower the contrast). Does anyone have an idea on how
much Baking Soda (or a possable range, like 1(one)teaspoon to 1/2 cup)to add
to a gallon of Dektol. Any other suggestions on taming the contrast via
development the would be appriciated.

Thanks in advance for the help.

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Received on Thu Apr 25 23:35:50 2002