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This is a great time of year for printing photographs. The water out of my faucet is about 20C or just a little cooler, and the humidity meand my fiber prints do not curl as much as they do in the winter.

Last night like all other Fridays I was home alone but this time the darkroom was set up and I was in such a groove. I tell you, having a set way of film and development is the way to go. The negatives have been developed such that normally all I need to do it set the enlagrer lens at f16, set the timer to 15 - 20 seconds and maybe do one or two test strips before I get a good print. The only filter I ever use is the Zero filter for the negs that I forgot about while they were developing in the kitchen- 5 rolls were in the soup for almost 20 minutes instead of the usual 10. I think I was reading something, or playing GTA3 at that time.
For developer I use Papito, and one bag (costs like, 4 bucks) makes 8 liters of developer- so last night I used 4 liters, and in about 30 minutes I will spend the next 4 hours using the rest.