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I have just bought a Paterson safelight via ebay and found out it has
the VF dome, not the red one. I have contacted Paterson who say that it
might fog Ilford MG, depending on distance. Have I wasted my money or
would having the light about 1.5 m away be okay?

On occasion I've been experiencing slight headache and tinnitus after
leaving the darkroom. Maybe I need to beef up my ventilation? Ouch. Anyone
else experience similar or other symptoms? D-76, Stop, Fix, HCL?

I'm printing on Kodak RC VC paper. When I use say a +3 contrast filter
should I be adding time to my exposure? Thx.

I'm trying to build an enlarger timer that can do quarter-stop exposure
calculations. Working on the web (and glancing at Tim Rudman's f-stop
calculation table), I've concluded that the relevant formula is:
[t2] = 2 ^ (-1* ( ([scale] -1) * log2 ([f]^2) + [scale]*log2(1/[t1]) ) )

All,
  There was a news article on the German news today how Agfa has sold off
it's film division.  I only caught a short portion of the rather quick story
(why is it wives know exactly the worse time to ask you what you want to

Okay, it's a stretch and I'm ignorant but I'm involved in buying out an old
darkroom where they have a huge load of 14-year-old, oversized (14"+) color
negative printing paper. Is there any chance of using this material with B&W
chemistry? I'm talking peanuts for price, but if it's ...

I have a dry mount album which i bought because I heard that it's bad to put
photos in plastic sleeves however this means my photos will get some exposure to
air.
Is it worth buying some sort of clear spray to "seal" the prints to prevent them

Which developers would the wise folks on this newsgroup recommend for neopan
1600? The aim is to minimise grain (at least somewhat). I've tried T-max, at
24C but this was more grainy than expected. I realise it's going to be
fairly grainy anyway.

I am in the final stages of re-setting up my darkroom stuff and now,
having a young son, I am concerned that disposing of used dev, fix etc
down the kitchen sink may not be a good idea. Does anyone have any
comments on the safety of doing this, I am concerned that there may be

Is there a specific reason why none of the processing formulas specify
a calcium salt? They are all either sodium or potassium salts.
What is the reason?
Thanks,

I've had nice results recently with WD2D+ and traditional emulsions.
I've got a bunch of Technical Pan in the freezer and it dawned on me
that the contrast control of the WD2D might have some potential with
the TechPan. I'll go ahead and experiment (I almost hope it isn't

The chart below plots development time vs. contrast index.  How do I
convert contrast index to stops?  In other words, if I measure Zone III as
EV 12 and Zone VII as EV 17, then I do N development which is 5 stops.
Since I'd rather not do tests and don't care that I'm super precise ...

I have a 100g sealed plastic container of Formulary glycin that's 2-3 years
old. It's a brownish color. Does that mean it's definately bad or is there
hope?

I rarely shoot B & W, but have always liked it with a lot of contrast.
However recent experience is that the results are awful. They are just
a boring pale grey, Years ago they use to come back contrasty and look
great.