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Ah i see now it's before the second development. That's wild, how is it able to remove silver halides to improve the whites but not effect the blacks? The dilution? I would think it would have an impact on both the blacks and the whites or neither.

0.4% fixer seems crazy diluted...what is this actually doing? We've been reading that there's technically no residual silver in the end anyways, so what's going on here in this step? We found with Quintol, we can do at least two dozen 4x5 prints, same developer for first and second development...

We fixed the contrast issues with a Crown Yellow 2 filter. Unfortunately the 0 filter from the enlarger didn't do much. The development issues we narrowed down to being old/depleted/exhausted developer. After mixing a fresh batch, it pretty much disappeared completely. We also realized we only...

wouldn't flashing the paper just turn the black blobs into less-black grey blobs? how would it actually change the contrast range of the paper itself?

Ok so we made some changes but still having contrast issues and some unexpected results. We changed our developer dilution to 1:12 multigrade with some mixed results, went back to 1:9, and reduced our Sodium Metabisulfite bath to a 2.5% solution and then 1.5%. Bleach we realized is quite...

Hey folks! Long-time lurker, rare poster, overall big fan of this community and lover of analog photo :) Some friends and I are working on some in-camera photo paper direct-positive prints. We got a process working from this outline here...

Yeah the documentation is quite frustratingly scant for the EcoPro, but I what little information there is DOES specifically say it's a one-shot developer, capable of replenishing, but suggests nothing for re-use without replenishment, unlike XTOLs specific table for reusing 1L of stock: XTOL...

Thanks for your input Kino. I wasn't expecting anyone to run any tests for me, nor am I asking for their opinion on one vs the other--preference isn't my concern here, I was mostly curious if folks have been reusing EcoPro Film developer without replenishing, and if they've had similar results...

I know, I know, I'm new but I've been through all the threads on comparing these two developers and I'm not trying to bring up that debate, what I'm trying to figure out is, if these two film developers are practically equivalent in everyone's experience so far, why EcoPro film developer pitched...