[rollei_list] Re: OT: development
- From: Allen Zak <azak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 11:21:54 -0400
Have you looked in on your more venerable negatives lately to see how
they have fared all these years? How do they compare to those
previously fixed in a more haphazard way?
I ask because in my most recent inspection of earlier negatives,
sometimes properly fixed and washed according to different techniques,
sometimes not, and they look same as ever. I suspect it's hard to mess
up film fix and wash too badly. Prints are another story.
Allen Zak
On May 21, 2005, at 6:29 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> I stopped getting those problems when I started doing a two bath fix
> with my
> film just like I've done for a long time with my prints.
> This makes for negs that you for sure know you don't have to worry
> about
> turning on you in anything resembling the near or not so near future.
> Where
> no film has lasted before.
> I'm almost glad tab grain films came about and got me doing this
> because I
> wish I'd been doing this all along; way before tab grain films came
> out in
> the early 90s.
>
> I seem to recall a trick at the rental lab people would put their
> slightly
> diachronic fogged looking film from such fixing problems on a light
> table
> for 20 minutes and they'd clear.
>
> Tab grain films especially Kodak seems to "eat" hypo. (fix)
> Having two bottles of rapid fixer A mixed up.
> An a and b bath.
> recycled and fresh.
> And I'ts a no brainer.
>
> I do a quick rinse before going into the second fix from the first fix
> because that seems obvious to me. Not that I've ever heard of anyone
> else
> doing it.
>
> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/
>
>
>
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