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What developer do you use for your plates?

Nodda Duma

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For your homemade emulsions, what developer do you tend to use?

I switched from Dektol to aggresive HC-110 Dil A, and development time dropped to a few seconds. Makes me think the paper developer was masking an overexposure issue.


What do you use for developer of your own emulsions?
 

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For film and plates D76, for paper Dektol or Liquidol. For fix I use any acid fixer with hardener. I use a stop.

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i've always used either sprint, ansco130 or dektol
lately it is dektol and a little caffenol c ...
 

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For glass plates: originally Dektol, now D76 1:1, which I've been happy with.

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Seems to me like something odd going on here. I've never made plates, but HC-110 dil A is slightly slower at developing paper than dektol 1:2.
Just out of curiosity, what dilution of dektol were you using, and how long did it normally take to develop a plate? It just seems hard to imagine that development could go from minutes to a few seconds.
 
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