Response to Switching from tray to drum developing

Give your negative more exposure and then dilute your developer by 50% and give shorter development time in the drum. Because you are giving maximum agitation, which causes density to rise accordingly, you must give more exposure to the neg which raises shadow density. Then dilute your developer "and" cut down on your development time. This will bring down the density in the highlights (relative to the shadows) and still allow the shadows full density. You need to test for EI and development time because you are changing processes. Constant rotory agitation produces a very smooth negative with lots of specular detail throughout but can be problematic if you don't calibrate the system from camera exposure to development time and developer concentration. We can give you all sorts of off the wall answers but only calibrating the system will get you where you need to be. If you were getting good results from tray developing, why are you changing? I've used all the methods out there and like rotory processing best for what I shoot and how I like my negs but that for you might be different. James

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