Response to Farmer's Reducer for film?

I'm trying to keep the inexperienced from trying to fix a mistake on an important piece of film. I am experienced in the darkroom yes. And I still get uneven results with reducers. It is not a good way to fix mistakes. I want the new photographers/printers to refine their exposure techniques so they don't have to resort to such extreme methods in the first place. If they want to experiment with reducing negatives and prints then by all means do it. That's how I learned but it should never become a crutch. Even with proportional reducers there is to much chance of reducing your shadows to nothing. Jmaes

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