[Leica] Film development ?

[len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)]

I develop my film in my laundry room. In the Winter when the humidity  
is low I use a humidifier to keep the dust down.

Len


On Feb 12, 2012, at 10:06 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> 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
>>
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