> stain is a different color. The stain color affects how it prints on VC papers, but that normally is not an issue for me.(posted 8067 days ago)The stain color is part of what put me off on pyro (Rollo/Leban); I normally print on VC paper and the stain color was rather too much. I don't do platinum although I'm sure it's something I'll have to dabble with at least sooner or later.
> that staining developers (in this case the W2D2 pyro formula) can reproduce a longer tonal range than conventional developers
I agree with that. I got a tremendously long range with Rollo but what bothered me was that all the compression was at the high end when printing the negs on VC paper. Yes I know the solution is to print on graded paper
but that's not the way I want to go. What I'd like is something between Rollo and D-76. One thing I didn't find; do you do an afterbath (developer or Kodalk) or not with Pyrocat?