Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alex, Addressing the dirt and water streak issues. First, dilute some photo-flo at no more than label directions with distilled water and hang at an angle so that the water goes to the edge of the roll and then down and you will remove almost all spotting/water spot issues. Second, make or buy a film dryer so that one, dirt is almost completely eliminate and second, your film is dry in minutes instead of the next day. You can make a film dryer out of some schedule 40 PVC, a hair dryer, some HEPA filters for a vacuum and a small bit of very stiff wire or wide mesh screen to hold the reels inside the dryer. In the LUG archives there is a tremendous amount of information regarding processing B&W film. Also, questions to us will provide some extremely knowledgeable folks to answer. Thanks for showing the images and keep pushing the shutter release. On 6/21/07, Alex <alex@zabrovsky.com> wrote: > > Well, making a leap into a real B&W - first in my life, with manual > processing at home. > So far did two Tri-X 400 rolls (both in HC-110, dill. B for 6.5 minutes > at 20 deg.C). Still have lots to learn, but so far appears to be not so > bad... > Please check my galleries: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/alexz/All-around+local/ - last three > images > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/alexz/portraits+and+people/ - last 6 > images > > P.S. no major retouch has been done to save some time, so there is some > dirt and water residue appear - still have to learn how to cope with > these annoying issues.... > > Sincerely, Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com