James,(posted 9165 days ago)The talk was about using proportional reducers to help fix these negatives. And you advice was you might be able to do it because you were so good in the darkroom, but mere mortals couldn't do it.
I was just trying to point out that just saying don't do it because you aren't skilled enough isn't helpful.
Maybe Farmer's Reducer isn't the best thing to use, so what is? And the way people learn is by doing. If the neagtives are too dense to print well, you don't lose anything be practicing on them, or if you want to learn, you can intentionally over expose some film and practice on it.