pin pricks in negs

jetcode · 15-Oct-2007, 00:55

Originally Posted by nbattlesfoto

Honestly, I've never heard of stop bath doing this, but I've never run into this situation. I've seen BW negs that were incorrectly washed with really hard water that left nasty stuff on the negs.

I did some developing tonight using TFX-2 and the instructions specify to not use Acetic Acid in the stop bath because it causes pin-holes in some films after development. I use water instead. As far as I can tell there are no issues in the negs I just processed.

**Don Wallace** · 15-Oct-2007, 06:02

Originally Posted by jetcode

I did some developing tonight using TFX-2 and the instructions specify to not use Acetic Acid in the stop bath because it causes pin-holes in some films after development. I use water instead. As far as I can tell there are no issues in the negs I just processed.

What is TFX-2?

jetcode · 15-Oct-2007, 07:04

Originally Posted by Don Wallace

What is TFX-2?

Developer produced by Photographers Formulary. It's a high definition derivative based on Crawley FX-1 developed in the 60's.

www.photoformulary.com/uploads/01-0090.pdf