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Subject: [Leica] OT: What went wrong? (B&W developing resulting intransparent negatives)
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Sun Jan 9 08:40:51 2005
References: <001501c4f63a$3d451490$0202a8c0@acer81080ea37f> <Pine.SOL.4.58-L.0501091423460.2974@hedvig.uio.no> <ad878fe005010907432e72aeb@mail.gmail.com>

You should use an eye dropper as a control for the photoflow amount.
S. Dimitrov



On Jan 9, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Marc Osborne wrote:

> Thanks everyone. It was late and maybe I rushed it. I still don't know
> where it went wrong but I suppose a fixer/developer confusion or
> mislabelling could have been the problem if it wasn't the developer
> itself. Indeed there are no frame #s or anything at all. I'll shoot a
> test roll this afternoon and try it again, slowly, step by step, and
> very conservatively with the photo-flow and I'll let you know how I
> made out. Thanks for your responses.
>
>
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:24:10 +0100 (MET), Daniel Ridings
> <daniel.ridings@edd.uio.no> wrote:
>> I'd suspect mixing up Hypo Clearing agent with the developer ...
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Steve Unsworth wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff, but if there were no frame numbers it implies a processing
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: lug-bounces+mail=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org
>>> [mailto:lug-bounces+mail=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org] On 
>>> Behalf
>>> Of Jeff Sumner
>>> Sent: 09 January 2005 06:12
>>> To: Leica Users Group
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: What went wrong? (B&W developing resulting
>>> intransparent negatives)
>>>
>>>
>>> No matter how poorly I expose things, I always get SOME silver to
>>> develop out.
>>>
>>> If your film is completely clear, it means that nothing developed, 
>>> and
>>> that your fixed dissolved everything. I'd suspect the shutter on the
>>> Leica.
>>>
>>>
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Slobodan Dimitrov
Photography


In reply to: Message from mail at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth) ([Leica] OT: What went wrong? (B&W developing resulting intransparent negatives))
Message from daniel.ridings at edd.uio.no (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] OT: What went wrong? (B&W developing resulting intransparent negatives))
Message from marc.osborne at gmail.com (Marc Osborne) ([Leica] OT: What went wrong? (B&W developing resulting intransparent negatives))