Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They don't recommend using hardener with the modern emulsions anyway. Only if you are into retro stuff like Ekfe. Otherwise, just fixer is fine. Anyway, so the advice is: be careful, minimize touching and breathing the stuff, powder, liquid, or vapor. Then again, I shot 2000+ frames in the last 4 days on digital and 14 frames in B&W negs, so it's not like I am drinking the stuff.... On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > I'm agreeing with what you're saying for the most part ric mainly but if > you > have a little sucker fan in the corner of the room and you keep the > hardener > out of your Rapid fix working in the darkroom is a low odor experience. The > biggest smell is that of the stop bath and that stuff is not going to do > anything to you unless you take the concentrated bottom of Kodak indicator > stop bath and stand on your head and pour it up your nose. > > Me I've been farily intensively dark rooming from 1965 when I was 13 to > 2001 > when I was 50. > I designed a darkroom with a sink big enough so I could lay out 20x24" > trays. I used an Aristo VC cold light. Variable contrast. > I gave my clients fiber not RC prints in the last ten years of my careers. > And hung shows up prints up to 20x24. > -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.imagecraft.com/pub/Portfolio09/ blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963