Richard Knoppow wrote: > The blue stain is probably residual sensitizing dye as is > the violet stain in T-Max films. While the presense of this > slight stain is attributed to incomplete fixing I think its > mostly due to the dye being bound to the gelatin by its pH > after the use of an acid fixer. The problem was indeed in the fixing stage and I appear to have now eliminated any problems by taking more care here on a roll of TMax I exposed yesterday. Thank you for the help. James -- http://jamesd.ukgeeks.co.uk/ --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list