Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My experience is that curling negs are a result of the temperature and humidity they experience at drying. Experiment with raising or lowering the temperature of the room, and separately raising or lowering humidity. I have more difficulties with this during the winter. The solution is simple. Page the negatives and put a little weight on them. They'll flatten out. I usually keep my negatives and contact sheets in an archival box. If I want the negs to be flatter, I put them at the bottom of the box. The weight of the pages negatives and accompanying contact sheets above does the trick. All you need is patience. When patience is short, I put them under the glass I make my contacts with. That does the trick much faster. Be sure all surfaces are clean. Well, Ken, I'm glad to see you're developing your negatives. You will get a consistency now that the labs generally can't provide. Don't you think it's about time we had a meeting of the New Haven Rollei-Leica Users Club?! Doug