sully75
7-Oct-2010, 17:37
Hello all,
Feel like I'm starting to get the development thing dialed in a little better.
BUT
I'm having a really frustrating thing happen randomly to negatives. It's hard to photograph so I'll have to describe it. I'm getting what looks like a hard water stain on some negatives on the anti-halation side. It looks almost like a thin kiss mark. It sort of looks like the negative has been scraped, but I suspect it's something attached to the negative. The marks are consistently shaped. It's not on the emulsion at all.
I also get some random spots that are clumped into areas on the anti-halation side. I've had this happen both with taco method and with the Bessler drum/rotary base I use more. The kiss marks I think I only get with the drum.
I'm using D76 1+1 one shot, have had this happen both with Kodak Rapid Fix and Kodak Pro fix. I'm washing in tap water. I can't say that the tap water is temperature controlled but I don't think it's excessively warm or cold. I'm prewashing with distilled water, and my chemicals are mixed with distilled water. I'm using Kodak indicator stop bath also.
Any thoughts? I wish I could take a picture of this but it seems to dissapear from the surface when I try to.
Feel like I'm starting to get the development thing dialed in a little better.
BUT
I'm having a really frustrating thing happen randomly to negatives. It's hard to photograph so I'll have to describe it. I'm getting what looks like a hard water stain on some negatives on the anti-halation side. It looks almost like a thin kiss mark. It sort of looks like the negative has been scraped, but I suspect it's something attached to the negative. The marks are consistently shaped. It's not on the emulsion at all.
I also get some random spots that are clumped into areas on the anti-halation side. I've had this happen both with taco method and with the Bessler drum/rotary base I use more. The kiss marks I think I only get with the drum.
I'm using D76 1+1 one shot, have had this happen both with Kodak Rapid Fix and Kodak Pro fix. I'm washing in tap water. I can't say that the tap water is temperature controlled but I don't think it's excessively warm or cold. I'm prewashing with distilled water, and my chemicals are mixed with distilled water. I'm using Kodak indicator stop bath also.
Any thoughts? I wish I could take a picture of this but it seems to dissapear from the surface when I try to.