Re: bleach-redevelop


Liam Lawless (lawless@vignette.freeserve.co.uk)
Sun, 24 Jan 1999 02:11:58 +0000


Hi Ken,

Thanks for your message. I haven't sepia toned a negative for a long time
now, but recall that it intensifies to about the same extent as a chromium
intensifier. But I also seem to remember that the densities are actually
reduced, intensification occurring by dint of the change to a fairly
non-actinic colour.

Other toners can also be useful. Selenium is often quoted, but didn't
impress me very much. But an iron blue toner softens and reduces exposure
times. You can be really creative with a chromogenic toner, making green,
yellow or purple negs as you see fit!

I also use a much chaper borax-sod. hydroxide substitute for metaborate, but
the book where I first saw it had it wrong. For my first year of using it,
my PMK wasn't PMK at all...

Liam

[Apologies if this arrives twice - think it got lost first time I tried to
send it]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Sinclair <photo1@telusplanet.net>
To: lawless@vignette.freeserve.co.uk <lawless@vignette.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: 24 January 1999 00:51
Subject: bleach-redevelop

>Liam,
>I have been following your postings re PMK (my favourite).
>
>Maxim Muir notes that bleach-sepia toning a silver negative will also
>increase overall density.. a method I have used to save my butt on the
>occasional negative when I have ended up with an underexposed negative
>(there! I have shared a well kept secret) .
>I do not have his URL at hand, but I have used his borax/lye recipe for to
>replace the more expensive metaborate in PMK.
>
>Ken
>
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