Just mixed up my first batch of Photographer's Formulary 130 paper developer (aka: GAF 130, ansco 130). Nobody told me the glycin foams up when you add it...a tiny bit alarming, but the mad scientist in me loved it. What's mixing chemicals without some foaming, bubbling, or color changing?

Tomorrow I hope to finally get a break from cleaning the place to do some printing.

I asked around about my negative issue (see the previous post), and got some good pointers at [APUG][1]. I tried them out and here's what happened. Read more

So I finally developed my first negatives since high school, some 18 years ago. I have three different developers: pyrocat-HD, rodinal (or at least [Photographer's Formulary][1] paraminophenol), and some D-76 (well, close...Lauder Chemical formula 76). Wanting to run before I could crawl, I'd decided to do some stand development with the pyrocat and the rodinal. I grabbed three exposed rolls of Promax 400 35mm, some cheap no-name film I wanted ot practice on, two from my Canon and one from my wife's cheapo point-n-shoot, and developed them. Read more