expose and re-develop

YJL · Dec 4, 2020

Just experienced something strange so I may ask to wiser people..

I've been developing BW paper with new mixed developer and probably it was too little exposed. Nothing appeared even few minutes passed, so I decided to move the paper to water tray(instead of stopper), squeezed and tried to expose other negative again with enlarger.

I was expecting maybe I can save the paper or at least I could get some double exposed effect? But strangely nothing appeared when I re-developed it, is it normal? I don't know all the chemistry in details but probably emulsion has changed on first developing stage?

voceumana · Dec 4, 2020

You probably put the film in the fixer instead of the developer. After development, the unexposed silver is still sensitive to light, so re-exposure would produce an image unless the paper had been fixed. Fixer removes all the silver that hasn't been converted to image.

Sirius Glass · Dec 4, 2020

YJL said:
Just experienced something strange so I may ask to wiser people..

I've been developing BW paper with new mixed developer and probably it was too little exposed. Nothing appeared even few minutes passed, so I decided to move the paper to water tray(instead of stopper), squeezed and tried to expose other negative again with enlarger.

I was expecting maybe I can save the paper or at least I could get some double exposed effect? But strangely nothing appeared when I re-developed it, is it normal? I don't know all the chemistry in details but probably emulsion has changed on first developing stage?

Yes, you have nothing to lose and experience to gain.

expose and re-develop

YJL

voceumana

Sirius Glass

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