On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:59:55AM -0600, William Robb wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Pentax List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: June 4, 2001 12:40 AM
> Subject: Mr. Stoopid's Darkroom Triumph
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>
> <Insert your tale of woe here>
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> > May ~your~ darkroom experiences all be better than this one.
>
> OUCH!!!!
> Ummm, here is a little hint: Put a small quantity of stopbath
> into your fixer as part of your chemical mixing. It doesn't take
> much, all you want is a bit of acetic acid smell. Then, if it
> smells like stopbath, and you haven't used developer yet, you
> know it is time to stop pouring and start reading.
> All fixer formulations are acetic acid tolerant, and many
> formulae use it as an ingredient.
Exactly - OUCH!
Nice hint, but with the chemicals I use, the fixer is actually stronger smelling than
the stop bath. I think they've gone all environmentally friendly and use citric acid
instead of acetic these days.
My routine involves using different measuring cylinders for dev stop and fix. (We
don't have a nice, matching set of cylinders.) So after a while, it becomes routine -
wouldn't think of putting fixer into the cylinder with the orange base, or developer
in the tall transparent one with the crack down the side. I suppose it's one of the
few advantages of using a low-budget darkroom.
--
Francis Tang, Postgraduate Research Student, LFCS, Edinburgh.
Visiting: AG14, Mathematik, TU Darmstadt, Deutschland.
Tel: +49 174/3545241 (D2 Voda) ZNr: 2d/215
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