Mixing own Cold/Warm toned developers, advice please

[menglert]

I’ve been reading through the Darkroom Cookbook 2nd edition, and am interested in trying some of the neutral, warm, and cold tone developer formulas. I know this might sound a little silly, but will these warm / cold tone developers still have an effect on modern papers (ie develop a neutral tone paper in cold tone developer, and get a cold toned print?)?

Currently I’m working with two fiber papers, Arista.EDU Ultra FB VC & Fotokemika's Varycon Variable Contrast. Before I jump into buying the chemistry and mixing my own developers, I’d be interested to hear other peoples advice and experience with this.

Thanks for your help,
Martin

 

[Tom Hoskinson]

Martin, to get tones on those papers that please you, you will probably need to do some developer testing. There is a lot of paper developer information (formulas, procedures, comparisons, commentary, etc.) in the APUG chemical recipes section: (there was a url link here which no longer exists)

There is a lot of additional information in the APUG threads - try the APUG search functions.

Here are some examples of relevant APUG threads:

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