Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If I may add to John's most excellent recommendations. When I was processing my own film we did all of our film processing one shot and throw it away. If I wanted a softer look I would save it any use it one last time and then toss it. The other point is that I always stored all of my chemicals in light proof bottles and kept them close to the temperature that I always processed at. They should be at the same temp (chemical to chemical) when you do a film run. Not sure if John mentioned this or not but for consistent results you need to be consistent with temperatures and with agitation during processing, stop bath and during fixing of your film. Over agitation during processing or fixing can give you to much density in your negatives. One last thing is never let your film stay in the photoflow solution too long as this will soften the emulsion and lead to neg damage. One time when I was shooting for a daily (about 30 yr back) we left a roll of film in the photoflow overnight. When we took the film out of the bath in the am the emulsion slid off of the film base. Real bummer-but it was the lab head who did it-so we felt sort of bad. Hopes this is of help. Cheers Wilber Jeffcoat - ----- Original Message ----- From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com> To: LUG <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 8:14 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Wet work: share some wisdom? > on 7/28/01 7:22 PM, Adam Bridge at abridge@mac.com wrote: > > > As someone who is just venturing into the wild and whacky world of the > > darkroom, I'd sure enjoy hearing some suggestions from those who have been > > there about some of the really killer mistakes that people make and how to > > create a methodology to avoid them. >