I want my negatives to have shades of grey, rather than blacks and whites. Overexposed, overdeveloped negavives or parts thereof contain no detail. Same with underexposed, underdeveloped negs. I find is far easier to increase contrast in printing than to decrease, given the lesser ability of paper to reproduce shades of grey. I am also not convinced that the edge markings are a great way to determine properly developed negs. Try printing some negs, see what happens. Your negs may be better than you thought.(posted 8523 days ago)