David Lewis Bromoil Paper

The best papers to use with amidol developer are old-style, soft emulsion papers, such as those with minimal hardener, silver-rich papers (papers without excessive dye sensitization), graded bromide papers, long-scale chloride papers, or specially coated papers such as David Lewis Bromoil Paper (see Resources). With any other paper, which is to say most modern chlorobromide papers, amidol works just as well, though not necessarily better than most other developing agents, or combination of developing agents—thus the controversy. 

Much has been written about amidol s tendency to both oxidize rapidly and to stain paper. My own experience using amidol is that it does not oxidize any fester than most other developers. According to Michael A. Smith, an expert on amidol, and David Lewis, a leading expert on the Bromoil process who uses amidol extensively, neither has experienced the rapid oxidation reported by some users. If anything, amidol should only be used for one session and then tossed. 

David Lewis, (Private Label soft-emulsion enlarging paper, bromoil chemical), 457 King Street, P.O. Box 254, Callander, Ontario P0H 1H0 Canada t (705) 752-3029, www.bro-moil.com. 

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