Developers for school lab

[cliveh]

Looking for some ideas here.....I'd like my Photo II students to experiment with using film developers other than our standard D76. I want them see that different developers can effect their film in different ways (grain, tonality, etc). So, if I were to provide 2 additional film developers, what would you suggest?

BTW, most use Arista EDU ultra or Ilford films.

Valerie, sorry to be the voice of dissent here, but the replies to this post are from very experienced workers with film photography. For your school students I would suggest you forget different developer effects and concentrate on teaching them to produce good prints from standard D76. they need to walk before they run.

 

[Valerie]

Valerie, sorry to be the voice of dissent here, but the replies to this post are from very experienced workers with film photography. For your school students I would suggest you forget different developer effects and concentrate on teaching them to produce good prints from standard D76. they need to walk before they run.

As I said, this is the Photo II class.... they already learned how to make good prints in Photo I. Now I want to push them to other things.

BTW, to all that suggested caffenol-- I have caffenol-developed negs drying now! I think this will be a great part to the "developers" lesson!