Mikeseb's suggestion (plenty of agitation) runs contrary to everything I've been taught though I've no reason to doubt it works for him - afterall, his photography is pretty hot!) Similarly, Rob's presoak is alien to me. That might well no longer be the case! Here, in Spain, the water is so hard that washing is almost tantamount to ensuring a deposit of scum on the dried film, another reason that discourages me from using film, though I did use distilled water for everything else in the process (in Spain).Īll this might well have been an exercise in futility, but it was the best I could think of and seemed to work most of the time. Also, importantly, the Glasgow water supply - my branch line of it anyway, was so soft that you could use it in the car battery instead of distilled water. Whether or not it helped is hard to say: you can´t process the same film twice. This was made up days in advance and allowed to settle until no froth was evident.
Used them for papers though.Īs a final dip after washing, I used a stock solution made up of water, in about a 5 ltr bottle with a single drop of wetting agent. I was always in two minds about stop baths - mainly against. But always slow inversion, with a pause in between each, in an attempt to give the fluid time to float any bubbles off the film face. The point is, if you get a routine and stick to it, you find the correct times by experience. Then, after a minute or two, I´d empty that out, shake the tank well and then pour in the developer and agitate via inversion, slowly, for the first minute, regardless of instructions to the contrary.
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My technique used to be to make up a full tank ´s worth of plain water at 68 - 70 degrees F and pour that into the dev tank as a pre-developer bath in the hope of getting the film evenly wet, agitating by inversion. I don´t like the idea of too vigorous a shaking: you can create bubbles that way.
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