Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Another thing you can do is fix with icy cold basement fixer. Which will leave your film white. Not fixed. Or very very old fix. Wont fix. But white film is a fix issue. Has nothing to do with development. Its possible with very poor agitation it might be agitation in the fix but I doubt it. The moon is full. It should have fixed. mark@rabinergroup.com Mark William Rabiner > From: David Rodgers <drodgers@casefarms.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:34:24 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Conversation: [Leica] A Questionable Haze? > Subject: RE: [Leica] A Questionable Haze? > > Excellent advice, Mark. > > Once, when not carrying my decimal (which can happen when you pull an > all nighter in the darkroom), I made a gallon of fixer using enough > chemicals to make a pint (or was that .1 gallons). I then diluted one to > one. Rapid fix was slow fix and eventually exhausted no-fix. > > It didn't smell. (Oh the sweet smell of fixer!) That should have been my > first clue. I should never have reached the point of pink and haze. > > To fix things I refixed. > > DaveR > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mark@rabinergroup.com] > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 2:23 AM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] A Questionable Haze? > > The milky white is CLEARING TIME. Its nice to have an idea of what that > time > is. > If it takes 4 minutes for it to clear than you give it another 4 on top > of > that and you're done. Its indicating an 8 minute fixing time total. > Then I like to run it for a few minutes in a b fix just like in > printing. > A fresher fix. Which gets the Kodak pink out out out if that's the film > your > using. But makes me feel better anyway regardless of film. > Over fixing is bad. But its supposedly much harder to over fix the newer > tab > grain films. > > We hope the funny black haze was not her aura. Or worse. > Just the heartbreak of funny black haze. Selsun blue might not work. > > "Never wear the black without the Blue -- Selsun Blue". > > mark@rabinergroup.com > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information