[pure-silver] Re: how to keep paper chemicals warm?
- From: Gianni Rondinini <bugbarbeq@xxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 17:51:45 +0200
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 08:45:11 -0400, you (Nick Zentena
<zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxx>) wrote:
>> to bed - yep, i know i'm really poor in darkroom... :)
>
> Na just means your standards are too high -)
this is a wonderful way to see things :)
thanks nick...
>> in this way, chemicals are, say, at 22°c when starting the whole thing
>> and their temperature drops to 18 or less during the time.
>
> Why not start at 18C and leave them be?
donnow: i've read on bottles that they "should" work from 20 to 24
degrees. or, at least, that's the recommended range.
during winter i may fall even lower, perhaps to 16 degrees and that
may not be good. i'm using neutol, i don't know what developing agents
it has and even if somebody here would tell them to me i wouldn't
understand what this could mean or lead to. i simply remember that on
adams' book he said that development could depend on chemicals
temperature due to the different activity different developers have at
various temperatures.
this, together with the fact that @24°C the image takes few seconds to
appear and @<18°C it takes 20 or even more seconds, made me think
perhaps *part* of poor results i'm getting may come from wrong
temperatures and lack of... i mean i don't always do the things in the
very same way --the temperatures we're talking of are one of these
things--.
i've just changed some of my darkroom, reducing the variables and
number of things i use: i hope to loose a bit less of time and get
--at least slightly-- better results.
> I certainly wouldn't worry about heating the stop and fixer above 18C.
ok, thank you.
about the outlets thing: yes, you've been told right. all the outlets
in italy have ground fault protection devices. i've got at least 20
times the 220v ac voltage from an outlet, but it never hurted (too
much :)
should i go with a heater, inside or under the trays, i think i'll
watch for a low voltage one: when you talk of having current and water
it's always better, if you can, to go low voltage (24v cannot be
harmful).
regards,
--
Gianni Rondinini (30, tanti, RA)
Nikon user - Bmw driver
http://bugbarbeq.deviantart.com
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