[pure-silver] Re: Film developer temperatures??
- From: Georges Giralt <georges.giralt@xxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:01:35 +0100
Dear Uncle,
This reminds me of a Swiss saying : "In Swiis we have 2 seasons : The
last winter, and the one coming..."
Stein a écrit :
> Dear Friends,
>
> Yes, yes, I know your darkrooms are climate controlled. So is mine.
> Unfortunately the control is set permanently on " Simpson Desert ".
>
> But there are compensations - I was processing glamour girl pictures
> with the RA 4 process tonight and the machine heaters did not have to wink
> on hardly at all. The wash water was nice and warm out of the tap and the
> prints dried on the racks in record time with just a fan blowing over them.
>
> Summer does not last forever, and at least I do not have to sit in a
> stuffy classroom with nothing but overhead fans for air circulation. I have
> a new A/C at the surgery and have set it to blow over me all day. I elbow
> the nurse out of the way to get to the cool air.
>
> I have certainly learned that some sheet film emulsions can be adversely
> affected by the heat. I mistakenly left a number of film holders with Fuji
> NPS in my ready-use locker near the studio camera and they cycled up and
> down in temperature for weeks before they were used. The results are green
> in some areas and pink in others and are mutually un-filterable. I now use
> Kodak Portra and keep the holders in the fridge until the day they are
> needed - the colours have come back to normal. Believe me, green glamour
> girls are hard to sell.
>
> Uncle Dick
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