Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/02

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Subject: [Leica] Wendy;s developing.
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:19:04 -0800
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The only way you can get scratches during development is when you squeegee.
There is no other point in the development and drying procedures where there
is intimate contact in the film image areas.....

Thus, if you do NOT squeegee, you can not get scratches......  If you DO
squeegee, you MAY get scratches.... 

I never did get it... what does the squeegee do?  Removes the water from the
negs, and therefore presumably the possibility of water streaks?  Doesn't
hanging them with gravity working for you do that anyway?
Add a little alcohol to speed the drying process if required to speed things
up.....

Frank Filippone
red735i at earthlink.net

Do you squeegy the water off the negs after hanging?  That's how I was
trained but now wonder if that might be a source of scratches?
Rob





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