Well, I am about ready to give up. My last 4X5 I shot, the emulsion pretty much floated off, even with almost no agitation - but perhaps this is because it is from a very early batch.
I just shot two 5X7's and processed - while the emulsion was very stable and remained intact, I have some weird swirly artifact floating up out of my subject on the right, looking almost like smoke, which becomes quite distracting. I was hoping it was some emulsion that got onto the back of the glass and I could clean it off, but it is on the emulsion side.
It is just hard for me to get a consistent usable image...and I really don't care for the notch in the glass.
I had high hopes
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