[pure-silver] Re: what causes pinholes in emulsion?

Could even be a problem caused by your rinse if you say it is abrasions.
Clean all the way through the process and if your fixer is the least bit too
old solids there may be the problem. 

 

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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: what causes pinholes in emulsion?

 

I live in the tropics sometimes. It's tropical in summer here. I think I
processed that film in the winter, though, when it wasn't all that hot in
Houston. I always use developer at 70 degrees or so, but I don't always
check the temperature of the stop.

Maybe I should.

--shannon


On Feb 20, 2009, at 4:33 PM, BOB KISS wrote:


DEAR SHANNON,
            I live in the tropics and always cool my film processing chems
down to 68 ? 70 ° F when I use a stop bath.  One of my students insisted
that he could use D-76, stop and fix at room temp, 85 ° F, simply by
reducing the dev time.  He got the contrast right but had many pinholes.  Is
this a temperature issue for you?
                        CHEERS!
                                    BOB

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