Re: Dark Spots on Negative
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Originally Posted by
Justin Roxbrough
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I'm thinking it's water spots?
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You answer it correctly Justin, I think.
I do not know how much tap water should be filtered to be used for developing films.
But, distilled water should be free of most if not all of this artifacts.
Re: Dark Spots on Negative
It looks like debris in the solution.
Re: Dark Spots on Negative
At a dollar and pennies a gallon, why would you take the chance and use tap water after all the work that went into shlepping equip./setting-up/composing/metering/shooting and then reversing everything to go home???
Re: Dark Spots on Negative
Those can also be from the film having pin holes of sorts in the negative. Seems to be some sorta defect from the film manufacturer (I saw it on D100 and Tmax, and even Acros) where if you look at the negative you will see lots of small white dots. I was noticing those on film I had developed by a lab and was like wtf! I haven't seen them yet doing my own film. I use distilled water and on ocassion I have used tap water to rinse with no issues, but my water has been thru a water softener first. Make sure all your water is filtered even if it is distilled.
Does this happen on every sheet of film or just certain ones?
Re: Dark Spots on Negative
I'd try fresh fixer in a new container. Could be chunks of silver from the fixer or it's container.
Re: Dark Spots on Negative
+1 on "distilled" water, which can be from a store or, better, from a countertop spigot drawing from a reverse osmosis treatment system, usually under the counter. AND
+1 on fresh fixer, my personal experience is that I have seen "gunk" suspended in the fixer and tossed it. So cheap. Make fresh.