Back to the Darkroom:Update
Reflecting on my original post and my complaint about the thinness of the negative I decided I should try and intensify the negative. There are many ways to to this including a very old technique of using Mercury Chloride (not a good idea!), Chromium, Sepia toner, ot Selenium toner. Fotospeed makes a Chromium intensifier intended for darkening thin negatives. I have never tried this but this is one way to go. Andrew Sanderson's excellent blog has instructions on using Sepia toner . This involves bleaching then toning the negative. He does a great show and tell to explain the process. Finally I use Selenium toner. Why? Mostly because I already have Selenium toner mixed up for my printing use. It is also dead simple. Just dunk the negative into selenium mixed a 1+3. I give it about 3 minutes. I get anywhere from a 1/2 stop to full stop improvement. I gave a short write up here but realized though I was satisfied with the improvement I didn't show si...