Use water, and to prevent stain add just a bit of citric acid to the
water to make sure it is acidic.
I have no idea why anyone would recommend borax as the developer for
VDD. Borax would make the developing solution alkaline, thus greatly
increasing the possibility of staining.
Perhaps I am missing something, but on the fact of it this just does
not make sense to me.
Sandy
>All
>
>Which developer do you use for the Van Dyck Brown process?
>
>I know that Arnold Gassan's book (Handbook On Contemporary
>Photography-4th edition) said to use borax but other recent
>references say to use water.
>
>Is there a reason for borax versus water?
>
>Thanks
>
>Bruce
Received on Thu Feb 23 12:57:20 2006
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