Re: [Leica] Darkroom help

["Daniel Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>]

I use a cellulose sponge- you can buy them in bags of about a dozen for very
little- the trick is to use it only for photo work, and I keep mine in a
zip-lock back between sessions so it does not pick up a stray piece of grit.
If it looks stained or you begin to distrust it- throw it way, and get
another out of the big bag- they are cheap enough to do that and are as good
as the expensive ones at the photo store- and they come in such cheerful
colors! I like the blue, myself!
Dan
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitch Brown" <leicameter@hotmail.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 1:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Darkroom help


> >I finally killed drying marks for ever using the following method
> >as not failed yet wash as normal THEN soak for 1 min in Anionic (steam
> >distilled) water with EXACTLY 1 drop of photo-flo per liter added.
> >Available from your local pharmacist or pharmacy dept of the bit grocery
> >store for next to nothing.
> >
> >Now hang up to dry.
> >
> >the point is there is NOTHING in that anionic water to cause drying marks
> >nothing but photo-flo :(
> >John Brownlow
>
> I do exactly the same except for using a different brand of wetting agent
> (Agfa). However to reduce the chance of dust (since I don't have a film
> dryer) I gently wipe the negatives with a small piece of photographic
> chamois that has been soaked with the wetting agent and distilled water
> solution and then squeezed almost dry. This allows the negatives to dry in
> short order. I have never had any marks either by using this method.
>
> For those that don't know; photographic chamois is ordinary natural
chamois
> that has been treated to rid it of it's natural animal oils. I suppose
> synthetic chamois would work too.
>
>
>
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