Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]try a 2 min presoak when developing TMAX. Agitate for 10secs every 30sec intervals. This has worked for me and most of the pink cast (these are dyes) comes off during the presoak stage. My negs are free from the pink cast problem when i added a presoak stage before developing the negs. guna - -----Original Message----- From: Pete Su <psu@esgear.com> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Monday, January 03, 2000 4:14 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Light purple/pink Ilford film >I've read about the pink cast in TMAX and Delta type films. That's why I >tried the extra time in the fix and wash. > >I'm confused because I've never gotten pink negatives from "traditional" >films, like Tri-X and HP5. Since the negs are clear and uniform, I'm less >worried than I might be. But I'm still curious about what might be going on. > >Maybe guess I'll go back to Tri-X. :) > >Pete > >