Here's a new one. 1 print out of 50 is warm toned.

gone · May 23, 2021

Over the last few weeks about 50 prints were made. Same dektol developer, same Kodafix fixer. The warm print, the pottery piece, was the last image printed, if that's any reason for this. In the 2nd shot, I desaturated the images and still see a bit of red in that image. Go figure. Paper is Ilford MGRC Deluxe Glossy.

Vaughn · May 23, 2021

Often a sign of reduced development with Dektol -- perhaps the developer was borderline exhausted.

Pieter12 · May 23, 2021

More details, please. Print size, development time, are you including test prints/strips in the 50 print number, tray processing or slot, were all prints developed in the same solution (replenished as needed), have you done this before?

pentaxuser · May 23, 2021

I have seen developer that was near exhaustion produce what might be called by some as a change on colour but never as anything that approached a warm look. I assume these are scans of the print, so is there any chance that somehow the scanning parameters changed or is this a change that you see in the print itself?

It's a new one on me.

pentaxuser

relistan · May 23, 2021

Color perception is controlled in part by grain size. Larger grains look warmer if I recall. This tends to happen with more diluted developer and less solvent actiin. My guess is that you are well on the way to exhausting it and your next print would look similar.

gone · May 23, 2021

Ah, I suspected things may have been exhausted on the developer side. Thank you. This was the last of the Dektol, which had been mixed up a month or two ago, and the last print of that session. What threw me off was the test strip, which had been printed a few minutes before the actual print, and it was fine. Pretty long odds that the developer would croak on the last print w/ no warning, but it must have.

koraks · May 24, 2021

momus said:
What threw me off was the test strip, which had been printed a few minutes before the actual print, and it was fine.

It's about as warm as the final print on my screen.

pentaxuser · May 24, 2021

momus said:
. Pretty long odds that the developer would croak on the last print w/ no warning, but it must have.

Not necessarily. Isn't it like the fact that rain has to stop somewhere which is why I am in the dry and you are in the wet or vice versa and yet we are only inches apart

pentaxuser

Here's a new one. 1 print out of 50 is warm toned.

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