[pure-silver] Mistakes Galore

  Bonjour La!

  I souped my 4x5's last night. I gotta tell you, this whole LF thing
has been like learning to take pictures all over again. Granted, I've
only been lugging a 35mm around for 2 years now but LF is another
beast entirely. But I am loving it.

   So back to the program. I go through XTOL like Tim Hortons goes
through coffee cups (a little Canadiana for you).

   I use 2 inch deep 8x10 trays to soup my 4x5. I do 3 negs at a time.
Anymore at this stage and I get into trouble. Steve Simmons in his
book says I should use 2L of soup. TWO LITERS! That's a lotta soup. So
I have been using 1.5L. For 4x5, say you are souping 10 negs in all,
how much developer do you use?

   Next, XTOL. Are there any tips on dissolving part B? I get these
giant chunks of white rocks that I have to mash with a jackhammer.
Rather annoying stuff.

   My focusing and exposure and developing issues (minus one) are
settled. Or so it seems. So that's cool. There's been lots of mistakes
along the way.

    My current problem are scratches. I tray develop. I get little
half moon scratches. It looks like I buried my pinkie nail into the
neg. Any idea what causes those? The only thing that comes to mind is
when I load film I slightly bend the film when it is half way into the
holder to see if I got it in the right groove. I've had problems with
not sliding the film in correctly and when I would return the dark
slide, after having made a picture, the slide would smack the film out
the other side and I would curse rather loudly and pretend to throw
ShenHao into the drink.

    But a few of these images have rather deep half moon scratches.

    The cloud images came out (minus the scratch). If I can, I'll scan
it and post it.

    Thanks again

    J



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Justin F. Knotzke
jknotzke@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.shampoo.ca
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