Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dust in your dry attack sticks to your negs. But in basement darkroom with much more dampness any dust is less likely to stick. I never got dust on my negs. My basement darkroom and basement was not all that dust free. There was dust to be seen. It just never landed on my negs. -- Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:42:34 -0600 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Film development ? > > On 2/12/2012 4:40 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> Every photographer I ever met for decades used a cap of photoflo in their >> last rinse before they hung up their negs which they'd squeegee with the >> first two figures of their hand. The idea of going out and buying water >> for >> the purpose never came up I'm sure they'd find it very interesting and >> wonder what the hell was going on. >> > That is what I did, with distilled water for the final rinse, but it > appears the Photo Flo bottle has changed with a much bigger cap, or at > least that is my memory. Kodak says 1:200 dilution. The main thing was > to have a good dust-free drying cabinet. I used distilled for the final > rinse since our water varies widely through the year. > > Ken > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information