Response to Beginner developerI wants whiter whites and blacker blacks.

Get a piece of developed film with no image on it and expose from this at your normal magnification. Close the enlarger lens say two stops. Then expose a piece of paper in steps of two seconds - so cover up 9/10ths first then 8/10 and so on. The first exposed section will be twenty seconds. See which exposure gives you full black. You then know that you will always get full black at that exposure in the very dark areas of a print.

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