[rollei_list] Re: RPA, Efke 25, fixer with hardener?

  • From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:38:24 -0400

Try without the hardener first.
Its sulfuric acid. Battery acid.
Not great to breath the fumes. Its a little bottle you can just not use.
Solution B. just use solution A is Ammonium Thiosulfite. Does not smell
hardly at all but use rubber gloves anyway.
If you are getting all kinds of scratching then then maybe give it a go.
The hardener is even thought of as not archival by some folks as it makes it
harder to wash the stuff out of the neg; or in this case the glass plate.

I'd kill to be able to shoot glass plates.

I believe the look you'd get would be notably sharper than sheet film;
Even flat sheet film.
Would be interesting to do a side by side comparison and see if it was
really true.
Its just feel like Atget or somebody.
William Henry Jackson
http://andrewsmithgallery.org/exhibitions/western/jackson.html

Naturally I'd like to be shooting larger ones
At least 5x7's if not 8x10's






Mark William Rabiner



> From: Robert Lilley <54moggie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:30:03 -0400
> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: RPA, Efke 25, fixer with hardener?
> 
> Carlos,
> 
> I use a non hardening fixer with Efke 9x12 cm sheet film all the
> time.  I am not familiar with a Domi-Plan tank as I use a 3100 series
> Jobo drum which does not require guiding film into small slots or
> racks.  If you are careful you shouldn't have a problem.  Why do you
> want to use plate film?
> 
> Rob
> 
> On Mar 30, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Carlos Manuel Freaza wrote:
> 
>> 
>> A friend of mine is sending me a box of Efke 25 film sheets 6.5cm x
>> 9, this is the exact size for the Rollei plates adapter.I have read
>> the emulsion is soft too much while wet and then Efke suggests a
>> fixer with hardener. I have available to buy a Kodak rapid fixer
>> with hardener, is it necessary really? or could I handle the wet
>> film sheet with care avoiding to buy a new fixer?. BTW I have never
>> used the Rollei plates adapter yet, I have never developed film
>> sheets yet (I have a Domi-Plan tank)and I have never used hardener,
>> modern emulsions don't need hardener, older ones -Efke 25 uses an
>> Addox formula- needed one often.
>> TIA
>> 
>> Carlos
>> 
>> 
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