Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Drying marks
From: "Roy Zartarian" <royzart@connix.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:20:05 +0000

Last night I tried Ted's dunk and drain approach. It worked.

Thanks, Ted, for passing this on!

Roy


On 20 Feb 99 at 11:50, Ted Grant wrote:
> 
> The major error committed by most photographers using a wetting
> agent is...THEY USE TOO MUCH! Everyone of us has made that mistake
> at sometime, usually at the beginning learning stage.
> 
> What if there isn't any distilled water available?
> 
> Quick fix and no marks.
> 
> Immediately after washing, a ___"FEW DROPS"___ like that is two or
> three, into clean water.  dunk films and swish around.  Then lift
> out and return to another clean water tank or container plunge the
> rolls in and out, drain. And before removing film from reels, hold
> reel firmly in hand and flick arm and hand forcefully towards floor
> to shake off additional rinse water.
> 
> Hang and dry....DO NOT SQUEEGE OR TOUCH FILM! I have used this
> metheod for quite a few years and the secret is...ONLY A FEW DROPS
> OF WETTING AGENT, I use kodak Photo-flo and using A SECOND QUICK
> CLEAN WATER RINSE. This is dunk and drain!