Yesterday was another day in the darkroom. First of all I had this brilliant idea the night before to try out the Vivitar enlarger. I have two: the Beseler and Vivitar. The Vivitar is used only for developing black and white prints. I thought it was about time I tried it out and this way I would find out just how far off I might be in the developing of prints. I was thinking there was going to be this MAJOR difference! Alas, no difference, other than the diffused light was 'diffused' and so it took longer to develop a print. I developed one that I had already printed out on the Beseler. IT WAS EXACTLY THE SAME, and really not even any better. So after messing around with that for a couple of hours, I continued working on the third roll from Dubrovnik on the Beseler. Developed three more and called it a day. I'm sharing my favorite of the three here. Again, another restaurant front that looked very inviting - "Restaurant Aquarius".
I did check my FB paper and it's good. No problems there. I did change the actual development time down to 2 minutes after re-checking with the manufacturer's instructions on Dektol (2-3 minutes). Made sure I was being more precise on my transferring of the paper from one tray to another, checked my consistency of agitation requirements, etc., etc.
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