Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 02/03/2006, at 20:00, Walt Johnson wrote: > Commercial labs might need film hardeners but when doing small > volumes of personal film (with care, no doubt) it is one more > unnecessary chemical. If you're in the need of a hardener, use it with developer or stop bath, not with the fixer. > Stop bath is another avoidable, foul smelling, addition. Use a citric stop bath and that acrid smell will dissapear. BTW I only find stop bath required if developing time is short, the temperature is high, or the use of a depth developer is involved. > Running water between process and fix works very well. IMHO running water is environmentally unacceptable nowadays; cascade washing is perfectly archival safe, and conserves a lot of water. Even for FB papers > I am addicted to hypo clearing agent though. Hypo can be avoided for films as hypo can be efficiently cleared by osmosis during washing time under cascade method, anyway, there's nothing bad with it. > Too much wash time in Florida's summer version of cold water makes > emulsion very touchy. the typical case of tropical conditions where a hardener will be useful. :D Saludos ----------------------------------------- http://imaginarymagnitude.net/blog/