Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:28 PM 1/29/01 -0800, Brian Reid wrote: >I do everything that you do, except that I use deionized tap water >rather than distilled water, I add 1 capful of PhotoFlo per 500ml of >washwater, and I squeegee my negatives. I've never had a watermark. >I don't treat the final wash as a wash, but rather I seesaw the film >back and forth through the PhotoFlo mixture and then hang up and >squeegee the film. I too use deionized tap water. I have a deionizer built into my darkroom sink and I can route temp controlled water through it, so mixing chemicals at the proper temperature, with the equivalent of double distilled water, is a snap. I think water marks are a "rite-of-passage" for those just delving into the wet darkroom world. Like zits for adolescents. ;-) Jim