Silver salts were used as an antibiotic, maybe still are. Large
quantities would have a detrimental effect on your septic system, but
you'd probably have to be processing in commercial quantities for it to
be a serious problems. If you're really worried about the stop bath,
Ilford's indicator stop bath is based on citric acid, (vitamin C).
On 12/9/2010 12:13 PM, John Graves wrote:
Now being retired, I have also given some thought to the (film)
cameras and gear that I have accumulated but don't use. So home
processing appeared on the scene. Am I better off sticking with Tri-X
or has anybody had any experience with Kentmere (sp) that is being
pushed a bit by one of the local stores. Also seeing some reports
about a new to me Kodak developer (Xtol)that is easy to use and
environmentally friendly. Given a choice I think I'd buy the small
packets of D-76.
Also, I am on a septic system. I read on the web that developers and
stop baths are fairly close to vinegar and also fairly dilute. So
there is not any problems flushing them (literally.) But the fixer
does contain silver and some other potentially nasty stuff. Flush it
also? Or mix everything together and flush it. That is another
suggestion I saw.
As a really secondary question, as I was inventorying my gear, I came
across a really old pack of microdol. Is there a shelf life for
sealed package of chemicals? Is microdol still available?
John Graves
WA1JG
jh.gra...@verizon.net
Thibouille wrote:
2010/12/8 P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com>:
Tri-X in D-76 is pretty forgiving, you can soup in a bathroom and
pretty
much time it with your pulse. Learned to do that in a Photojournalism
course taught by a semi-retried Photo-Editor from the Providence
Journal.
Except for the fact that that the film used was 35mm rather than
4x5 it was
a technique that wouldn't have been alien to Weegee.
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