addin sepia color to B&W negs?

[stradibarrius]

Do you add coffee or tea with the developer to get that sepia toning?

 

[polyglot]

You do it in the printing, not to the negative. Look at warmtone papers for a start, or the application of selenium or other toners to the printed image.

 

[tim_bessell]

I recall reading an article @ unblinkingeye.com about toning POSITIVES, many colors, many possibilities. Interesting actually. Or do you just need to increase density in a negative?

 

[Anon Ymous]

Stradibarrius, you can probably tone your negatives with any rehalogenating bleach + sulfide toner, but I don't see a point in that. Some might do it if they want to make them more archival, like institutes with their microfilm archives. When you do it, the density of your negatives will change and they will print differently. As others have already said, you can always tone a print.

 

[Athiril]

Not every home developer optically prints.

 

[clayne]

Not every home developer optically prints.

In regards to the final product that's what this site is caters to.

Now, in regards to negatives, developing with PMK or similar Pyro style developer will yield green stained negs which, when inverted, will be sepia cast. Obviously if one is printing it's irrelevant, tone-wise.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

...in regards to negatives, developing with PMK or similar Pyro style developer will yield green stained negs which, when inverted, will be sepia cast. Obviously if one is printing it's irrelevant, tone-wise.

To me pyro stained negatives yield a blueish tone when inverted, if they are scanned in color mode. Not that it matters among analog printers like myself.

 

[jovo]

Do you add coffee or tea with the developer to get that sepia toning?

Sepia toning is a rather extensive subject with a lot of possible techniques including the use of tea...yes...the beveridge, not an acronym. However, the most flexible, and not very difficult procedure, uses a homebrew thiocarbamide potion often followed by a selenium bath. The same formulations are available commercially, but at much greater cost.

The bible for toning is Tim Rudman's "The Photographer's Toning Book". It seems to be in great demand, is out of print, and is extremely expensive to even buy used at the moment, but that may change...who knows. See if you can find a colleague who has it, and absorb the relevant chapter.