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Subject: [Leica] Photographers Formulary Rapid Fix
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Wed Mar 1 14:13:15 2006

I don't agitate with the fix like I do with the developer. Since the
fixation is relatively short in duration, I could start being more
compulsive about regular agitation.

After the fixing is done, I pour it out the fix and rinse with a hose going
with low flow through the Paterson tank - 30 minutes.

I then put distilled water + PhotoFlo for a minute.

Then they hang in a vertical drying with filtered room temp air sent
through. I would use the Durst forced air dryer (which takes the film while
still on the reel) instead, but I'm trying to get rid of the curl as the
Nikon scanner I use doesn't flatten the film well itself.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank
Filippone
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 3:51 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Photographers Formulary Rapid Fix


White spots... interesting.....

OK... Now more questions on technique..
How often do you agitate in the fix?  ( Things do not stick if they are
constantly in motion...)  ( I cheat by using my JOBO....)

How do you wash, apply Phoho-Flo etc?  Tell us your procedure.....

Still no opinion on the dust possibility?  Could something have happened and
you get a dust storm the day you developed this roll?  Vacuum cleaning?
Someone running a tile cutting saw, etc... Something that is human or nature
caused that creates an inordinate amount of dust....  ( we do in
California... I fix that by not developing until the evening, when things
calm down a bunch..)

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of
Jeffery Smith
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 1:29 PM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] Photographers Formulary Rapid Fix


The scanned negatives are covered with tiny white spots, so it is definitely
something on the film, not pinholes. Two of the three solutions I put on the
film were not completely dissolved. The borax bath in divided D-76 doesn't
stay completely dissolved, but borox is so soluble in water, it would have
come off in the rinse. I don't know what the cloudiness in the fixer was,
but I didn't use distilled water (there is virtually none in the city right
now...I went to five stores and found a total of 2 gallons). I'm thinking it
is the cloudy stuff in the fix. I'll try distilled and make up the solution
a few hours before I use it. I wish I had a magnetic stirrer.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank
Filippone
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 3:16 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Photographers Formulary Rapid Fix


Are you using TF4?

Filtering will probably work.... dilution with distilled water will help.
But more or less it should be in solution.  there should not be a
precipitate.

Now a better question... why do you have spots on your negatives?  You wash
after fix, so it is not particles of Fixer that is causing the spots by
adhering to the film.......  What kind of film?  Is there something else
that is causing these spots?  Dust on your drying area?

Or do you suspect a chemical action from this fix that is causing pinholes
in your film?

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net



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Replies: Reply from henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff) ([Leica] Photographers Formulary Rapid Fix)
In reply to: Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Photographers Formulary Rapid Fix)