RE: Some Kallitype observations
Thanks for clarification. What if I add dichromate beforehand? Will it cause the developer go bad in the long term? I guess you do it for being able to print with negatives of different DRs; because it lets you mix developers with different dichromate levels, as needed. Since I will be using calibrated digital negatives, I guess preparing a dichromate-added developer stock solution beforehand would not harm... Is it so? TIA, Loris. -----Original Message----- From: Sandy King [mailto:sanking@clemson.edu] Sent: 07 Eylül 2006 Perşembe 14:52 To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca Subject: RE: Some Kallitype observations Loris, Sorry, my head was somewhere else. What I meant to write was that I replenish the developer at the rate of about 50-100 ml of fresh sensitizer for about every 100 square inches of print surface that goes through it. I keep a bottle of fresh developer on hand (without dichromate), and a small bottle of 5% dichromate. Since I use the dichromate at 2ml of the 5% solution per liter of developer, when I add 100 ml of fresh solution I also add 4 drops of the dichromate, assuming that 1ml is 20 drops. Hope this is clear. Sandy >Th > >"...for every 100ml of sensitized paper processed..." I don't >understand this. You mean 100ml of coating solution? This makes around >50-60 prints with my usual image size (8" x 12"). I was planning to >replace 200ml of used developer with 200ml fresh / dichromate added >developer on every 6 print. What do you think about this replenishment >scheme? Do you find it too conservative and/or wasteful? > >TIA, >Loris.
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