Thoughts on using Ilford Bromophen in a warm darkroom

[Alan9940]

I've never used this paper developer, but I'm thinking about giving it a shot because I read that it produces a slightly warm image tone with most papers. However, I just read the instructional info on Ilford's paper developers and they don't recommend using this formula in a warm/hot environment. Since my darkroom runs at about 80 - 82F ambient temp during the summer months, I was wondering if anyone has any experience with using this particular paper developer in warm temps? How warm/hot is hot? Ilford doesn't say...

 

[koraks]

I wouldn't worry about it. Give it a go; should work just fine.

 

[MARTIE]

Bromophen is my standard paper developer. The temperatures you indicate won't be an issue, consistency is the main thing.

 

[MattKing]

The exact wording is:
"BROMOPHEN developer is designed for use at
ambient room temperatures, nominally 20ºC/68ºF.
We do not recommend its use for high
temperature or machine processing applications."
I read "high temperature or machine processing applications" as meaning the sorts of applications that emphasize speed and throughput - the ones usually found in industrial/commercial environments.

Of course, if my understanding about UK weather is correct, even 20C/68F might be considered at least a warm temperature environment .....

 

[Alan9940]

Thanks for the input.

@MattKing, yeah, that's the way I read it, too, but the wording leaves "high temperature" open-ended.