[Leica] wiping wet negs

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (TED GRANT)]

Hi Arche,
Piece of cake mon ami, like this is from 50 years experience processing with 
no scratches, crud, sludge etc,

FIRST OF ALL IMMEDIATELY STOP WIPING THE NEGATIVES WITH ANYTHING!! PERIOD! 
fINGER SKIN, CHAMOIS NOTHING IS FIT TO WIPE WET NEGATIVES AND I DON'T CARE 
WHAT ANYONE ELSE TELLS YOU! DON'T BLOODY WELL DO IT!

Before you remove film from reels do your normal dunk into Fotoflo, then 
immediately one quick dunk into clean water and out. Then holding reel 
firmly in the right hand between centre finger and thumb and snap your 
hand/wrist firmly toward the floor. Make sure you hold the reel firmly, do 
this several times and any water/fotoflo liquid will be gone.Or should be,if 
you see any excess liquid do the flick the wrist a few more times.

Remove film from reel and hang to dry with weight on the down end.

If you've done the above routine correctly you'll have absolutely clean 
negatives.
If there's sludge or other crud on the film after this routine you better 
start straining your chemicals and water before use. Also make sure you use 
very hot water washing your reels and tank immediately after use.

ted



----- Original Message -----
From: "Arche, Harvey" <Harvey.Arche@jp2hs.org>
Date: Sunday, April 16, 2006 2:03 pm
Subject: [Leica] wiping wet negs

> I've never found a technique I was really happy with for stripping 
> waterfrom film after photo-floing. My current method is a slow 
> pass down each
> side with a piece of wrung-out chamois that has been dampened in
> distilled water. Photo-flo and a pre- photo-flo rinse also of 
> distilledwater (we have hard water here). I'm still getting a lot 
> of crud, and
> since I'm starting use softer films I have to be very careful of
> scratches.
> 
> All suggestions gratefully considered.
> 
> Arche
> 
> 
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