I am new to film development and had a small problem with one of my negatives and was hoping that one of the experienced members here could help me understand what is causing this problem.
The details are: Film was T-max 100. I developed it with D-76 mixed 1 to 1 with water for 8 minutes and 25 seconds at 68F in a Jobo drum (2521) which I rolled back and forth by hand, one revolution about every 1.5 seconds. Stop bath 30 seconds, Fixer 7 minutes, 30 second water bath, Hypo 2 minutes, 5 minute continuous flow water bath, hang to dry overnight. Scanned the negative with an Epson 4990 flatbed scanner @ 2400 dpi in 16 bit grayscale mode.
Below is a image showing the part of the negative that has the spots.
Here is a 100% crop of the spots.
Are these water spots or something else? Is there a way to avoid/get rid of these?
Thanks in advance for your help,
-alan
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