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The GC & I Senefelders 1803 seems unavailable right now. At the current point in my own journey, I’m trying to improve on the results from Ilford MG FB Cooltone (the Ilford suggestion for their best product for Bromoil) to the Foma 113 BO, via Foma 112 (recommended on a YouTube video and, in my latest trial, it certainly seems better than the Ilford Cooltone). Perhaps, like golf, early improvements create great promise and then hopes are dashed by continuing blockages to incremental improvements? Where we feel we have increased our understanding of the process, subsequent results fail to bear this out inconsistency seems a hallmark of Bromoil, for beginners. I came across your latest posting on Bromoil as a result of using the search term ‘bromoil how critical is inking temperature.’ Allowing for the time since you posted, we appear to be at similar points on the road to acquiring the skills that we regard as adequate from a personal perspective. I need to sort out the edges of the print – the inking is too uneven.Perhaps incorporate a small amount of Burnt Umber ink to soften the overall feel of the picture. Improve inking process: Use ink more sparingly Start with hard ink for shadow areas but use softer ink (cut with linseed oil) with softer brush for highlights at a higher temperature.Finally, reduce temperature of soak time by 2 degrees. Reduce contrast of the initial print through a combination of reduced film development time, reduced printing grade and use of a softer or more dilute paper developer (I think I will make up some Selectol-Soft from raw chemicals).

I would like something more subtle but at least the paper is taking the ink. I need to learn how to reduce the contrast, but the result is OK. Hasselblad Planar 120mm, Ilford FP4+ in Rodinal 1:50, Printed on Fomabrom Variant 113. Here is the final result: Bromoil- scanned from Print. I settled for a soaking time of 18 minutes. The inking was fairly rough and ready, but you can see that clearing the highlights improved with increased soaking times. Here were the results: Results of soak test strips – iphone image

I cut a duplicate bleached and tanned picture into strips and soaked the strips for 5, 10, 15 and 20 minutes at 20 degrees Celsius.

Fix – Sodium Thiosulphate for 5 minutesĪt this point I decided to do a soak test to gauge the soaking time necessary for easy inking.

Soak in water at 20 C degrees for 3 minutes.

Process in Multigrade for normal time ( 2 minutes).

Print from the negative with half a stop over-exposure and a grade lower than ‘normal’.

After my initial foray into Bromoil I decided to switch papers from Slavich Unibrom to Fomabrom Variant 113 to see whether it inked more easily.