Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I seem to recall reading (maybe in Photo Techniques a year or so ago) that one of the inventors of Perma Wash worked out the sea water angle while doing some volunteer work at the Pacific Fleet's photo archives before World War Two. He noticed that the prints that came in from shipboard darkrooms seemed to have less staining and other signs of residual fixer, and found out they'd been at least partially washed in sea water. He took a small boat way out of Pearl Harbor to collect some clean samples of water, and took it from there. Chuck Albertson Seattle, Wash. - -----Original Message----- From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] advise needed: field darkroom > >Actually, National Geographic photographers have reported (and other tech. >manuals have confirmed) that sea water is very efficient in getting fixer >out of film and paper. Just use a fresh water rinse for the final rinse and >in photo flo. > >========= > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO > > Backups? We doan *NEED* no steenking baX%^~,VbKx NO CARRIER >