Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:04 AM 3/25/2002 -0600, Bill Satterfield wrote: >Was in the darkroom over the weekend developing film. I use a tank. On >one batch, I used a ounce of short stop to 15 1/2 ounces of water rather >than a 1/2 ounce. Film looks OK. What harm did I do and what can I >expect?. A mental error caused by waiting to long to develop rolls of >film. Perhaps, I ought to develop more frequently. Thanks Actually, no harm. I have never used a stop bath in film processing in my 50 years of darkroom work. It is unnecessary. But too much stop won't bother anything anyway unless you are using a developer containing carbonate. Which there are none of nowadays. Hydroxide will evolve CO2 but Rodinal is about the only normal contrast developer containing it. But I have never known anyone to have stop bath problems, regardless of concentration. When I started darkroom work in the 50's, there were carbonate containing developers being used and stop bath had the possibility of causing "pin holes" which is gas forming within the emulsion, rapidly being released, causing an eruption thus a pin hole. Because of this, I was taught (Brooks Institute of Photography) to simply use water as a rinse between the developer and fix with film. It has served me well for all of these years. Jim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html