Digital BW, The Print

> A perverse thought I keep having is that it might be possible to bleach the silver out of a neg & redevelop with something that can be scanned easily. Has anyone done this? A few of my scans are really terrible.<

In order to do Palladium prints from some of my 10x8 negs without having to make another higher contrast negative, I have used a rehalogising bleach, and then re-developed in a Pyrocatechol based developer. This is a staining developer but much cheaper to make up than a Pyro based one. I would however test it on a negative that is not important. Try Googling "Sandy King" he has a formula on his site.

Keith Dugdale.