Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Excellent advice, Mark. Once, when not carrying my decimal (which can happen when you pull an all nighter in the darkroom), I made a gallon of fixer using enough chemicals to make a pint (or was that .1 gallons). I then diluted one to one. Rapid fix was slow fix and eventually exhausted no-fix. It didn't smell. (Oh the sweet smell of fixer!) That should have been my first clue. I should never have reached the point of pink and haze. To fix things I refixed. DaveR -----Original Message----- From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mark@rabinergroup.com] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 2:23 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] A Questionable Haze? The milky white is CLEARING TIME. Its nice to have an idea of what that time is. If it takes 4 minutes for it to clear than you give it another 4 on top of that and you're done. Its indicating an 8 minute fixing time total. Then I like to run it for a few minutes in a b fix just like in printing. A fresher fix. Which gets the Kodak pink out out out if that's the film your using. But makes me feel better anyway regardless of film. Over fixing is bad. But its supposedly much harder to over fix the newer tab grain films. We hope the funny black haze was not her aura. Or worse. Just the heartbreak of funny black haze. Selsun blue might not work. "Never wear the black without the Blue -- Selsun Blue". mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner