[Leica] IMG: Film Developing - Reticulation

[photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest)]

I got reticulation with over-fixing back in the Navy. Often because
some tech mixed wrong. It still happens.

Phil Forrest



On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:42:03 -0500
Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> I think in the last twenty years of film making by Kodak, Ilford and
> Fuji and whoever  else they got it so no matter what you did; ice
> cold to boiling hot water and back you were not going to get any
> reticulation. Its a thing we white haired guys and gals have in our
> pasts which  even people who got a toe in on film  at the end were
> not able to do.  A bit of a right of passage. Many of my friends had
> that one reticulation example they could dig up and show you a print
> of. Now its just digital algorithms. Third party software to fool
> around with endlessly till the company goes out of business and it
> doesn't work with the next Photoshop upgrade. Way more ways of
> experimentation and variety. But no ice cold and boiling hot water
> repeated baths. No more sloshing away in the toxic waste.
> 
> The reason why my negs reticulated come to think of it is I subjected
> them to copper toner. Toner with real copper in it. Was supposed to
> be an intensifier. It for sure put the neg structure thought some
> major changes so when the hot water hit it was a sitting duck.
> And I was 13 or 14 when this happened.
> In 1965 or 6.
>