Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henning, A friend of mine owned a large photo chemical distributorship in Denver. The company lost power once during a winter storm. The building got cold enough that certain chemical separated. And I don't think it even got down to 32 degrees F. I can't remember exactly, as this was a number of years ago. But I do remember it ruined a number of high end solutions, and it was pretty costly. Dave At 10:48 PM 11/6/2001 -0800, you wrote: >The problem is that the chemicals that do the developing are in a gel. >You're not just freezing the film (and paper) which can stand freezing, >but you're freezing the developer/fixer in solution. When you freeze stuff >like this, different components freeze at different temperatures and >separate, and then the ingredients after thawing either are separate from >the those they should be intermingled with, or are no longer in solution. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html