B&W developing issues

glbeas

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  1. A possible cause of the uneven development would be filling the tank completely so theres no air left in the tank. This lack of air bubbles will hinder movement of the developer as you invert the tank, theres nowhere to move to. The bubbles float from bottom to top after the tank is flipped and push the developer out of the way as it goes ensuring agitation.
 

tezzasmall

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Looking at the negs, both seem fine for printing.

In fact, just to show you I have attached a very basic inversion of the neg to positive in my PShop LE version.

As said, scanning can add various things and can quite often leave you with a positive you are not happy with, and then immediately you think that it's a problem with the negs, when it's NOT!

Oh, and turning off the RGB colour mode for b/w pics helps. Change it to greyscale and it looks (slightly) better straight away.

Terry S

 
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