In this new series of blog posts, I will take you through how to compound your own black and white developer formulae from raw chemicals, which will allow you to explore the varied effects possible when home-developing black and white film. You don’t need to be a chemist to perform any of the steps, just moderately careful with some of the ingredients as they can be a little bit nasty sometimes.
We’ll start off with a fairly simple developer — Kodak D-23.