From: Don Bryant (dsbryant@mindspring.com)
Date: 05/02/03-11:25:17 AM Z
Angelica,
If you are looking to get blue or blue/black tones with silver gelatin paper there are probably easier and less expensive developers or toners that can be used. Amidol is pretty expensive, about $0.50 a gram. I've tried Maxum Muir's blue/black developer and it works very well although I didn't care for the look myself. You can also use gold toners to get a blue tone through out the print, however it may be as or more expensive than amidol. It works very well too.
One other way to get bluish prints is to make contact prints with AZO paper and use a phenidone based developer. Again I didn't like the results very much but it may be what you are looking for.
I'm sure others on the list may have suggestions.
Good luck,
Don
P.S. If you want the formula for Maxum Muir's blue-black developer or the blue tone gold toner let me know and I can e-mail those to you.
> IA?ve been recommended to try a developer called amodol, itA?s darkblue
(instead of black) and for best result choose prints there the motives are
against the light. But my attempts have failed.../Angelica
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>FrA?n: JUAN MIGUEL JUSDADO <jusdado@teleline.es>
>Till: FOTOALTERNATIVA LISTA CORREO <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
>A?mne:
>Datum: ons 30 apr 2003 07.13
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> Does somebody know a solvent of the "nitrobenzimidazol" to produce blue
> tones in a developer?.
>
> Pardon for my English, text translated by computer.
>
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