Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Martin, I swear by (not at) Kodak's Photo Flo or Agfa's equivalent. I mix it in the recommended 1:200 ratio, 2 liters at a time, in distilled water, and bathe the film in it for 30 seconds as the very last step before hanging it to dry. The instructions say NOT to agitate, and I don't. I have never had streaks or any kind of drying marks. Nathan Martin V. Howard wrote: > Eric Welch wrote: > > > > You're being too gentle. Shake the heck out of them. And only leave > > them in for at most 30 seconds. And try distilled water. Could be your > > water has a lot of something. And make the photo flo solution more > > dilute. Less won't hurt. > > > > Hmm. The first time I used the wetting agent, I did shake the heck > out of them. Ended up with a bubblebath in a developing tank... ;-) > > Maybe the distilled water will make the difference. Thanks for the tip > about time: I thought more was better. > > Dilution: Yeah, I only use a single drop in a 570ml tank. AFAIK, that's > as close to the 1:300 dilution I can get with a SWAG ;-) > > M. > > -- > Martin Howard, Grad. Schl. for Human-Machine Interaction, | > HMI/IKP, Linkoping University, SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden.| Just > Tel: +46 13 28 5741; Fax: +46 28 2579; ICQ: 354739 | say "DOOH" > E-mail: marho@ikp.liu.se; www.iav.ikp.liu.se/staff/marho/ +------------ - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium Photo page: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator