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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Streetshooter" data-source="post: 79620" data-attributes="member: 71">Mark, Have you calibrated your system? I mean, shutter, film and for proper ISO, light meter, developer...dilution, temp, time, agitation, fixer, same as dev...etcSame for prints....If you need help, I'll be glad to offer my experience. I think I would dump that developer and get something with some guts to it. FG7 or Rodinal are great and you can add things to either to get different results.If your planning on really doing silver, you really should calibrate. It's a 35mm version of the Zone System. The variables need to be under control at all times.Your 1st image looks to me to be almost flatlined. It has a decent tonal range but no life. Adding contrast like you did in version 2 will generally start to blow the high values out. See the left side of the fur region. If you plan on scanning and then going into Silver Efex, it's best to go into it with a straight line. Then your adjustments are more controlled in Nik.If your going to silver prints, you have to get the ACCUTANCE up with more snap and a more "S" shape curve.  This would happen in the neg soup not the print soup. We can chat if you like, my darkroom is still running. I have many chemicals I can send if you can't get them in OZ. I still have about 10lbs of real Amidol.Let me know....don</blockquote>