Black and White Chemicals

Yesterday I drove down to Sacramento and finally purchased the chemicals needed to start developing my film! It was I have to say very exciting for me. The gentleman at Filco who sold me the products is also a teacher of photography at one of the local community colleges! How lucky can I get? I proceeded to buy the chemicals and also a package of multigrade ilford galleries fiber paper. First I'm going to start out using Ilfords RC paper, then progress to the fiber.

Today I continued to do some studying of the chemicals and figuring out the ratios - with a magnifying glass, I might add, as the fine print was made for flying insects! It took all morning and then I started mixing some of the chemicals, but not all. One of the big issues was Kodak's Photo-Flo. It says, '...mix 1 part to 200 parts'! Hah! Try to figure that one out. So I go online searching for someone who has already done this and find the "recipe" real quick! Well, I'm not the only one out there who had a hard time figuring it out. There are chatrooms on this subject. Finally, after reading everyone's opinion on this subject, I found the answer that I am going to try which is: 2-3 drops per 1 1/2 liters. And this answer was not on Kodak's webpage, but rather on some kind of a health website! I'll let you know how that churns out!